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Author O'Connor, Candace, author

Title Climbing the ladder, chasing the dream : the history of Homer G. Phillips Hospital / Candace O'Connor
Published Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Eva L. Frazer, MD -- Preface -- Introduction. Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream: Homer G. Phillips Hospital -- Chapter One. The Mysterious Life and Death of Homer Garland Phillips, 1878-1931 -- Chapter Two. "Old and Combustible and Altogether Unsafe": City Hospital #2, 1919-1937 -- Chapter Three. "A Notable Advance in Negro Hospitalization": Homer G. Phillips Hospital, 1937-1940 -- Chapter Four. The Diaspora: Coming to Homer G. Phillips Hospital -- Chapter Five. "A Special Time and Place": The Ville
Chapter Six. "A First-Class Place": The War and Washington University, 1940-1950 -- Chapter Seven. Cheating the Grim Reaper: Surgery at Homer G. Phillips Hospital -- Chapter Eight. "Killer Phillips": The Hectic Emergency Department -- Chapter Nine. "First Rate... in Every Respect": 1950-1960 -- Chapter Ten. Loving the Children: Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Pediatrics -- Chapter Eleven. "Future Nurses Club": Nursing Life at Homer G. Phillips Hospital -- Chapter Twelve. The Final Era: The Long Path to Closing, 1960-1979 -- Chapter Thirteen. "Unbelievable": August 17, 1979 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes
Summary "Homer G. Phillips Hospital--founded in an era of segregated healthcare and named for the murdered attorney who fought for its existence--became a beacon of hope and healing for the black community and a path to professional progress for hundreds of black physicians and nurses"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 08, 2021)
Subject Homer G. Phillips Hospital -- History
SUBJECT Homer G. Phillips Hospital fast
Subject Hospitals -- St. Louis, Missouri -- History -- 1937 -1979
Minorities -- Medical care.
African Americans -- Medical care.
Discrimination in medical care.
African Americans -- Medical care
Discrimination in medical care
Hospitals
Minorities -- Medical care
Missouri -- Saint Louis
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021026147
ISBN 9780826274656
082627465X