Book ID: CBB353009347

Breaking Ground: My Life in Medicine (2014)

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Chanoff, David (Author)
Sullivan, Louis W. (Author)
Young, Andrew (Author)


University of Georgia Press


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: 288 pp.
Language: English

Tells the extraordinary life of Louis W. Sullivan. His life - from Morehouse to the White House and his ongoing work with medical students in South Africa - is the embodiment of the hopes and progress that the civil rights movement fought to achieve. His story should inspire future generations - of all backgrounds - to aspire to great things.

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Review Adam Biggs (2018) Review of "Breaking Ground: My Life in Medicine". Social History of Medicine (pp. 896-898). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Mauro Melato
Wheelhouse, Frances
Tobbell, Dominique Avril
Souza, Christiane Maria Cruz de
Sonenberg, Nahum
Smithford, Kathaleen Stevens
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Vesalius
Science
Medical History
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Publishers
University of North Carolina Press
University of Chicago Press
University of California Press
Transpareon Press
Oxford University Press
Nauka
Concepts
Medicine
Medical education and teaching
Biographies
Medicine and politics
Medicine and race
Health care
People
López Sánchez, José
Water, Thomas N. G. Te
Shatkin, Aaron J.
Premuda, Loris
Parin, Vasilii Vasil'evich
Laennec, René Théophile Hyacinthe
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
Medieval
21st century
Places
United States
South Africa
Bahia (Brazil)
São Paulo (Brazil)
England
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Institutions
Universiteit Leiden
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