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In: Health and Human Rights, Volume 2, Issue 3, p. 7
In: Bulletin of the atomic scientists, Volume 37, Issue 6, p. 16-20
ISSN: 1938-3282
Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. It is also the unlikely story of the health center's founder, Dr. H. Jack Geiger, a former teenage runaway who through a serendipitous turn of events was befriended and taken in by actor and Harlem Renaissance icon Canada Lee. Geiger's personal history brings a profound human element to what was accomplished deep in the Mississippi Delta: in addition to providing medical care, the staff of the Tufts-Delta Health Center worked upstream to address the fundamental determinants of health -- factors such as education, poverty, nutrition, and the environment -- and ask the question "What does it take to stay healthy?" Equal parts social history and personal history, Out in the Rural is a story of both community health and of a stranger's kindness paid forward.
In: AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community, Volume 12, Issue 1-2, p. vii-xviii
In: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword / Navarro, Vicente -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Health Comrades in Context -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Health Comrades, Abroad and at Home / Birn, Anne-Emanuelle / Brown, Theodore M. -- Chapter 2. The Making of Health Internationalists / Brown, Theodore M. / Birn, Anne-Emanuelle -- Part II. Generation Born in the 1870s–1910s -- Chapter 3. The Perils of Unconstrained Enthusiasm: John Kingsbury, Soviet Public Health, and 1930s America / Gross Solomon, Susan -- Chapter 4. American Medical Support for Spanish Democracy, 1936–1938 / Lear, Walter J. -- Chapter 5. Medical McCarthyism and the Punishment of Internationalist Physicians in the United States / Brickman, Jane Pacht -- Part III. Generation Born in the 1920s–1930s -- Chapter 6. Contesting Racism and Innovating Community Health Centers: Approaches on Two Continents / Geiger, H. Jack -- Chapter 7. Barefoot in China, the Bronx, and Beyond / Sidel, Victor W. / Sidel, Ruth -- Chapter 8. Medical Internationalism and the "Last Epidemic" / Lown, Bernard -- Part IV. Generation Born in the 1940s–1960s -- Chapter 9. Social Medicine, at Home and Abroad / Waitzkin, Howard -- Chapter 10. Find the Best People and Support Them / Braveman, Paula -- Chapter 11. Cooperantes, Solidarity, and the Fight for Health in Mozambique / Gloyd, Stephen / Pfeiffer, James / Johnson, Wendy -- Chapter 12. From Harlem to Harare: Lessons in How Social Movements and Social Policy Change Health / Travis Bassett, Mary -- Part V. Generation Born in the 1960s–1970s -- Chapter 13. Brigadistas and Revolutionaries: Health and Social Justice in El Salvador / Terry, Michael / Turiano, Laura -- Chapter 14. Health and Human Rights in Latin America, and Beyond: A Lawyer's Experience with Public Health Internationalism / Yamin, Alicia Ely -- Chapter 15 History, Theory, and Praxis in Pacific Islands Health / Yamada, Seiji -- Chapter 16. Doctors for Global Health: Applying Liberation Medicine and Accompanying Communities in Their Struggles for Health and Social Justice / Lanford Smith, Lanny Clyde / Kasper, Jennifer / Holtz, Timothy H. -- Chapter 17. Doctors Across Blockades: American Medical Students in Cuba / Remen, Razel / Bondi-Boyd, Brea -- Part VI Conclusion -- Chapter 18 Across the Generations: Lessons from Health Internationalism / Birn, Anne-Emanuelle / Brown, Theodore M. -- Notes on Contributors -- Index