Elegy for a Scarred Shoulder | 
| Author: Karen S. Williams
Publisher: Aquarius Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $14.95
Sales Rank: 2454472
Media: Perfect Paperback
Pages: 122
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 0971821437
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780971821439
ASIN: 0971821437
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Product Description
A searing chronicle of the African American medical experience in the United States, from slavery times to the Tuskegee experiment to the present. Contains 42 poems that chronologically address real and symbolic health injustices and advancements African-Americans have experienced from slavery through contemporary times. Readers will find in it poems based on the true stories of historic figures such as African-American clergymen, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones; noted physician and blood transfusion researcher, Dr. Charles Drew; athlete and entrepreneur, Ervin Magic Johnson; and neurosurgeon, Dr. Benjamin Carson, among others.
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