The Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America's Health Care System

This is a great book about the history of Medicine during the Jim Crow era. It shows the capacity of black women to go one step beyond their own duties, and the few black doctors to work until they dropped. I was a social worker and had a number of clients who attended the Black Hospital where I live, and always found the hospital to be clean and the staff friendly, so I read this with part shame and part amazement of the power of spirit during the Civil Rights movement and before. I had never read much of what David Barton Smith had collected and am a fairly avid reader of the civil rights movement. This was a new perspective and as a retired clinical (white) medical social worker, I believe it to be an important one.

Great book

Product not new as advertised, but torn, dirty and sticky.Content of book ok but book exterior was very damaged