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Show: May 27, 2012:
- The Emperor of All Maladies
- Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds
- Fitness Trumps High Blood Pressure Genes
- The Good Doctors
- The Country Doctor Revisited
- A Cautionary Tale of Summer Barbeques
- The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
- Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank
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The Good Doctors
Host: Eric Meslin, PhD
Interview: John Dittmer, professor of history at DePauw University.
Author John Dittmer discusses the under reported history of the civil rights movement within the medical community in the 1960s.
Until the late 1960s, African American doctors were not permitted to belong to county medical associations. Since it was those local associations that granted hospital privileges, African American physicians often were not permitted to admit patients to white-run hospitals in the south.
It wasn’t until 1968 that the American Medical Association was pressured to change this policy, in part by the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR).
Dittmer tells Sound Medicine’s Dr. Eric Meslin that the MCHR was made up of volunteer doctors from the north who had their own version of a civil rights freedom ride.
Additional Resources:
- Watch a video interview with Dr. Dittmer and read review about the book, The Good Doctors, at Bloomsbury Press.
- Learn more about his book and access purchasing information on Amazon.
