Description: Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation
Brief description: Gretchen Long is associate professor of history at Williams College.
Review Quotes: "Doctoring Freedom will prove useful reading for U.S. health care providers, policymakers, and others interested in understanding the complex interrelationships of power and authority, health care access, and equal rights and citizenship that have characterized the history of black and white medical culture from the antebellum period to the present day." -- World Medical & Health Policy