The Power of One: Sister Anne Brooks and the Tutwiler Clinic

by Sally Thomason

Book Overview

For thirty-four years Sister Anne Brooks, a Catholic nun and doctor of osteopathy, served one of the nation's most impoverished towns and regions, Tutwiler, in Tallahatchie County in the Mississippi Delta. In 1983, she reopened the Tutwiler Clinic, which had remained closed for five years, as no other physician was willing to serve in Tallahatchie County. Starting with only two other nuns and regularly working twelve-hour days, Brooks's patient load--in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496829166
• ISBN13: 9781496829160
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"