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Art of Medicine Rounds

Join Us For The Next Art of Medicine Rounds

THE ART OF MEDICINE ROUNDS

University Medical Center - Classrooms 1-3 - A light dinner will be served

Thursday, September 4th   5:30 – 6:30pm CST

Physicians for the People

Black Doctors and the Struggle for

Health-Care Equality in Alabama 1870-1970

 

Cover of Physicians for the People by Dr. Jack D. Ellis featuring a group photograph of physicians of color

 

 

 

 

Small hospital room with eight beds and small curtains between the beds

Black Obstetrical Ward, Birmingham’s University Hospital - 1960’s

 

 

 

 

Portrait of Dr. Jack D. Ellis

 

Jack D. Ellis is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Before coming to Alabama, he served as chair of the Department of History at the University of Delaware, where he developed an interest in the social history of medicine. His latest work, Physicians for the People: Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870-1970, draws on archival sources, an extensive data base, and fifty-five oral histories with Black doctors, dentists, and family members who recounted their lives under segregation. 

Hosted by Alan Blum, MD

Special thanks to Aron Bowers, Jacqueline Cochrane and Melani Harrell

Sponsored by the University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences

 

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Physicians for the People - Dr. Jack Ellis

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