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The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care
The Good Doctors The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care Author:John Dittmer The Medical Committee for Human Rights was organized in 1964 to support civil rights activists during Mississippi's Freedom Summer. MCHR volunteers exposed racism within the American Medical Association, desegregated southern hospitals, set up free clinics in inner cities, and created the model for the community health center. They were early ad... more »vocates of single-payer universal health insurance. In The Good Doctors, celebrated historian John Dittmer gives an insightful account of a group of idealists whose message and example are an inspiration to all who believe that "Health Care is a Human Right."« less