Grassroots medicine : the story of America's free health clinics
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Grassroots medicine : the story of America's free health clinics
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006
- : cloth
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  Tochigi
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  Tokyo
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
1 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
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