"The Good Doctors"

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Listen Wednesday, Jun. 10, 2009 at 12:06 p.m. in Health, Politics, Society

They were among the first Americans to believe "Heath Care is a Human Right." We hear about the Medical Committee for Human Rights -- a group of courageous doctors and nurses who helped care for demonstrators wounded in the Freedom Summer, the March on Selma, and the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

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John Dittmer

Professor of History, DePauw University; and author of "The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care" (Bloomsbury Press)

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