Public Policy and the Black Hospital: From Slavery to Segregation to Integration

by Woodrow Jones, Michell F. Rice, Mitchell Rice

This study adds to the small but growing literature on Black health history--the rise of hospital care and hospital services provided to Blacks from the antebellum era to the integration era, a period of some 150 years. The work examines the political, policy, legal, and philanthropic forces that helped to define the rise, development, and decline of Black hospitals in the United States. Particular discussion is given to the federal Hill-Burton Act...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313263094
• ISBN13: 9780313263095
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"