The Morehouse Mystique: Becoming a Doctor at the Nation's Newest African American Medical School

by Marybeth Gasman, Barbara Bush, Louis W. Sullivan

Book Overview

The Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of only four predominantly Black medical schools in the United States. Among its illustrious alumni are surgeons general of the United States, medical school presidents, and numerous other highly regarded medical professionals. This book tells the engrossing history of this venerable institution.

The school was founded just after the civil rights era, when major barriers prevented...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421404435
• ISBN13: 9781421404431
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher