“The Service I Rendered Was Just as True”: African American Soldiers and Veterans as Activist Patients

In this article, I examine how African American soldiers and veterans experienced and shaped federally sponsored health care during and after World War I. Building on studies of the struggles of Black leaders and health care providers to win professional and public health advancement in the 1920s an...

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Published in:	American journal of public health (1971) 2017-05, Vol.107 (5), p.675-683
Main Author:	Adler, Jessica L.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	20th century Activism African Americans AJPH History Armed forces Black or African American - history Bureaucrats Cotton Cyclic AMP Desegregation Discrimination Feedback Government Government archives Health care Health care industry Health care policy Health facilities Health Policy - history Health services History, 20th Century Hospitals Hospitals, Military - history Humans Informed consent Integration Interwar period Laundry Male Medical personnel Medical treatment Medicine Military history Military personnel Military Personnel - history Patient Advocacy - history Patients Physical training Policy making Political activism Politics Prejudice - history Printing Public health Racism Rehabilitation Segregation Soldiers Testimony Underwear United States Veterans Veterans - history War Wool World War I
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