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Product Identifiers
PublisherRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-100742540707
ISBN-139780742540705
eBay Product ID (ePID)48046295
Product Key Features
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameGrassroots Medicine : the Story of America's Free Health Clinics
Publication Year2006
SubjectPublic Health, Health Care Delivery, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Hospital Administration & Care
TypeTextbook
AuthorGregory L. Weiss
Subject AreaHistory, Medical
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-021101
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal362.12
Table Of Content1 An Introduction to America's Free Health Clinics 2 The Emergence of Free Health Clinics 3 The First Transformation in Free Health Clinics: An Increased Focus on the Uninsured and Working Poor 4 The Second Transformation in Free Health Clinics: The Shift to the Medical Mainstream 5 The Third Transformation: The Move toward Collective Organization 6 Reemergence of a National Association 7 Free Health Clinic Staff and Volunteers 8 Patient Responses and Outcomes 9 The Future Path of Free Health Clinics 10 Conclusion
SynopsisThis book describes the emergence of the free health clinic from its roots in the late 1960s and early 1970s, created by medical and lay social activists for young, alienated persons with substance abuse problems and by African American social activists for racial and ethnic minority groups. However, in the mid to late 1980s and 1990s, a second generation of free clinics began to develop rapidly in many different communities throughout the country, shifting their focus to the working poor and the uninsured. This growth has occurred with relatively little public attention and almost no scholarly investigation. This book fills this gap in academia by delving into both the history of the free health clinic and the stories of the volunteers, staff members, and patients of the modern free health care clinic. Through countless research and hundreds of hours of recorded interviews, this book gives the reader a view into the free health care community, represented by 45 clinics-old, new, big and small-spread throughout 10 states and the District of Columbia. The book includes many quotations from the many interviews conducted by the author to provide an honest, passionate view of the free health care clinic from the frontlines., Grass Roots Medicine describes the emergence of free health clinics in the late 1960s and early 1970s and examines the important transformations that have occurred since the mid-1980s. The book is based on more than 100 interviews with key individuals in the free health clinic movement and shares their comments with readers., This book describes the emergence of the free health clinic from its roots in the late 1960s and early 1970s, created by medical and lay social activists for young, alienated persons with substance abuse problems and by African American social activists for racial and ethnic minority groups. However, in the mid to late 1980s and 1990s, a second generation of free clinics began to develop rapidly in many different communities throughout the country, shifting their focus to the working poor and the uninsured. This growth has occurred with relatively little public attention and almost no scholarly investigation. This book fills this gap in academia by delving into both the history of the free health clinic and the stories of the volunteers, staff members, and patients of the modern free health care clinic. Through countless research and hundreds of hours of recorded interviews, this book gives the reader a view into the free health care community, represented by 45 clinics--old, new, big and small--spread throughout 10 states and the District of Columbia. The book includes many quotations from the many interviews conducted by the author to provide an honest, passionate view of the free health care clinic from the frontlines.
LC Classification NumberRA965.W45 2005
