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In Physicians for the People, Jack D. Ellis illuminates the post-Civil War lives of Black physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and midwives, highlighting both the causes of health care disparities among African Americans and the reasons for their continued underrepresentation in medical professions.

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""An important contribution to the field of African American healthcare history, which, while growing, is still in many ways in its infancy. The extensive oral histories alone make this a valuable contribution to the field, but Dr. Ellis has gone much further than just tying the oral histories together; he has placed them in a larger historical narrative."" --Thomas J. Ward, author of Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South, 1880-1960 ""The most enduring historical narratives tell not just the story of the past but the story of ourselves. In reading them, we question how we would have acted in a similar situation and wonder about who we would be if the past had played out differently. Ellis distills powerful vignettes from the oral histories he collected to do just that."" --Dr. Stephen W. Russell, The Alabama Writers' Forum

""An important contribution to the field of African American healthcare history, which, while growing, is still in many ways in its infancy. The extensive oral histories alone make this a valuable contribution to the field, but Dr. Ellis has gone much further than just tying the oral histories together; he has placed them in a larger historical narrative."" --Thomas J. Ward, author of Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South, 1880-1960 ""The most enduring historical narratives tell not just the story of the past but the story of ourselves. In reading them, we question how we would have acted in a similar situation and wonder about who we would be if the past had played out differently. Ellis distills powerful vignettes from the oral histories he collected to do just that."" --The Alabama Writers' Forum

""An important contribution to the field of African American healthcare history, which, while growing, is still in many ways in its infancy. The extensive oral histories alone make this a valuable contribution to the field, but Dr. Ellis has gone much further than just tying the oral histories together; he has placed them in a larger historical narrative."" --Thomas J. Ward, author of Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South, 1880-1960

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Jack D. Ellis is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and coauthor of Beside the Troubled Waters: A Black Doctor Remembers Life, Medicine, and Civil Rights in an Alabama Town

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