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Out in the Rural : A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty by Thomas J. Ward Jr. (2016, Hardcover)
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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100190624620
ISBN-139780190624620
eBay Product ID (ePID)221950080
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Number of Pages224 Pages
Publication NameOut in the Rural : a Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
SubjectPublic Health, Health Care Delivery, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), History
TypeTextbook
AuthorThomas J. Ward Jr.
Subject AreaMedical, History
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.4 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-021267
ReviewsWard shows that "in both practical and symbolic terms, the Tufts-Delta Health Center was a radical assault on both the medical and social status quo"-and that story is as urgent today as it was a half century ago." Publishers Weekly, "Ward makes an important contribution to the interest in poor people's institutions and to the fullness of southern history." -- Anthony B. Newkirk, Arkansas Review Ward shows that "in both practical and symbolic terms, the Tufts-Delta Health Center was a radical assault on both the medical and social status quo"-and that story is as urgent today as it was a half century ago." Publishers Weekly, "Ward makes an important contribution to the interest in poor people's institutions and to the fullness of southern history." -- Anthony B. Newkirk, Arkansas ReviewWard shows that "in both practical and symbolic terms, the Tufts-Delta Health Center was a radical assault on both the medical and social status quo"-and that story is as urgent today as it was a half century ago." Publishers Weekly
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentForeword by H. Jack Geiger Introduction 1. From South Africa to Mississippi 2. Community Organizing 3. Delivering Health Care 4. Environmental Factors 5. The Farm Co-op 6. Conflict and Change Epilogue Bibliography
SynopsisOut in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. It is also the unlikely story of the health center's founder, Dr. H. Jack Geiger, a former teenage runaway who through a serendipitous turn of events was befriended and taken in by actor and Harlem Renaissance icon Canada Lee. Geiger's personal history brings a profound human element to what was accomplished deep in the Mississippi Delta: in addition to providing medical care, the staff of the Tufts-Delta Health Center worked upstream to address the fundamental determinants of health -- factors such as education, poverty, nutrition, and the environment -- and ask the question "What does it take to stay healthy?" Equal parts social history and personal history, Out in the Rural is a story of both community health and of a stranger's kindness paid forward., Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. Its goal was simple: to provide health care and outreach to the region's thousands of rural poor, most of them black sharecroppers who had lived without any medical resources for generations. In Out in the Rural , historian Thomas J. Ward explores the health center's story alongside the remarkable life of its founder, Dr. H. Jack Geiger. A former teenage runaway, through a serendipitous turn of events he was befriended and taken in by the actor and Harlem Renaissance icon Canada Lee. Lee would later loan Geiger money for college, and after stints as a journalist and Merchant Marine, Geiger attended medical school and became a physician. Geiger's personal history brings a profound human element to what was accomplished deep in the Mississippi Delta. In addition to providing medical care, the staff of the Tufts-Delta Health Center worked upstream to address the fundamental determinants of health-factors such as education, poverty, nutrition, and the environment-and ask the question, "What does it take to stay healthy?" Equal parts social history and personal history, Out in the Rural is a story of both community health and of a stranger's kindness and determination to bring health care to areas out of reach., Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. Its goal was simple: to provide health care and outreach to the region's thousands of rural poor, most of them black sharecroppers who had lived without any medical resources for generations.In Out in the Rural, historian Thomas J. Ward explores the health center's story alongside the remarkable life of its founder, Dr. H. Jack Geiger. A former teenage runaway, through a serendipitous turn of events he was befriended and taken in by the actor and Harlem Renaissance icon Canada Lee. Lee would later loan Geiger money for college, and after stints as a journalist and Merchant Marine, Geiger attended medical school and became a physician.Geiger's personal history brings a profound human element to what was accomplished deep in the Mississippi Delta. In addition to providing medical care, the staff of the Tufts-Delta Health Center worked upstream to address the fundamental determinants of health-factors such as education, poverty, nutrition, and the environment-and ask the question, "What does it take to stay healthy?"Equal parts social history and personal history, Out in the Rural is a story of both community health and of a stranger's kindness and determination to bring health care to areas out of reach., Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. Its goal was simple: to provide health care and outreach to the region's thousands of rural poor, most of them black sharecroppers who had lived without any medical resources for generations. In Out in the Rural, historian Thomas J. Ward explores the health center's story alongside the remarkable life of its founder, Dr. H. Jack Geiger. A former teenage runaway, through a serendipitous turn of events he was befriended and taken in by the actor and Harlem Renaissance icon Canada Lee. Lee would later loan Geiger money for college, and after stints as a journalist and Merchant Marine, Geiger attended medical school and became a physician. Geiger's personal history brings a profound human element to what was accomplished deep in the Mississippi Delta. In addition to providing medical care, the staff of the Tufts-Delta Health Center worked upstream to address the fundamental determinants of health-factors such as education, poverty, nutrition, and the environment-and ask the question, "What does it take to stay healthy?" Equal parts social history and personal history, Out in the Rural is a story of both community health and of a stranger's kindness and determination to bring health care to areas out of reach.
LC Classification NumberRA395.M627
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