African American healers, Clinton Cox ; Jim Haskins, general editor
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African American healers, Clinton Cox ; Jim Haskins, general editor
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-154) and index
resource.biographical
individual biography
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
African American healers
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bibliography
Responsibility statement
Clinton Cox ; Jim Haskins, general editor
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Black stars
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
Table Of Contents
Dr. James Durham -- James McCune Smith, M.D. -- 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. -- 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. -- Alvin Francis Poussaint, M.D. -- Bemjamin Solomon Carson, M.D. -- Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D. -- Joycelyn (Jones) Elders, M.D. -- David Satcher, M.D
Target audience
pre adolescent
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