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African American healers /
Author Cox, Clinton
Call Number j925 C8772a
Publisher New York : John Wiley,
Subject African American physicians -- Biography.
Physicians
Medicine -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
Juvenile literature.
Title Statement African American healers / Clinton Cox.
Description vii, 164 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents Part one: The early years. Dr. James Durham -- James McCune Smith, M.D. -- Part two: The Civil War years and Reconstruction. Major Martin Robison Delany -- John S. Rock, M.D. -- Dr. Alexander T. Augusta -- Susie King Taylor -- Rebecca Lee (Crumpler), M.D. -- Charles Burleigh Purvis, M.D. -- Part three: Into the new century. Mary Eliza Mahoney -- Nathan Francis Mossell, M.D. -- Daniel Hale Williams, M.D. -- George Cleveland Hall, M.D. -- Austin Maurice Curtis, M.D. -- Adah Belle Thoms -- Justina Laurena Ford, M.D. -- Louis Tompkins Wright, M.D. -- William Augustus Hinton, M.D. -- Charles Richard Drew, M.D. -- Percy Lavon Julian, Ph.D. -- Part four: Modern times. Alvin Francis Poussaint, M.D. -- Benjamin Solomon Carson, M.D. -- Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D. -- Joycelyn (Jones) Elders, M.D. -- David Satcher, M.D.
Summary Profiles over thirty notable African Americans in the health field, including Civil War nurse Susie King Taylor, Dr. Charles Drew, father of the blood bank, and young pioneering surgeon Ben Carson.
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0471246506 (pbk.)
LCCN 99029978
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Bib No. 614909
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