TY - JOUR
AU - Boddy, William
AB - Book Reviews 663 Making a Place for Ourselves: The Black Hos­ plays separatist and integrationist commit­ pital Movement, 1920-1945. By Vanessa ments "not as iron-clad political ideologies, Northington Gamble. (New York: Oxford but as fluid, if divergent, strategies for University Press, 1995. xviii, 265 pp. $45.00, black advancement." There are inevitably junctures at which the ISBN 0-19-507889-6.) reader wants to know more. What larger un­ In 1923 the National Medical Association, the derstanding would come from comparing Af­ leading society of African American physi­ rican Americans with other ethnic groups in the United States that established hospitals cians, founded the National Hospital Associa­ tion, institutionalizing their advocacy for the of their own? And what were the expectations interwar black hospital movement. At a time and experiences of patients in these segregated of intensifying racism, many black physicians hospitals? Were fears about becoming subjects were convinced that segregated and black­ of medical experimentation in hospitals con­ controlled hospitals offered the most promis­ trolled by European Americans allayed when ing avenue to acquiring clinical training and care came from doctors and nurses of their experience and practicing modern medicine. own race? Gamble is exploring little-charted To elevate the standards and cultural 
TI - The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1920–1961. By Jeff Kisseloff. (New York: Viking, 1995. xvi, 592 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-670-86470-6.)
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/2945045
DA - 1996-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-box-an-oral-history-of-television-1920-1961-by-jeff-kisseloff-new-PsVCCY2UGK
SP - 663
EP - 664
VL - 83
IS - 2
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