Few were willing to ponder theresponsibility that might fall to a profession whose membersworked strictly on a fee-for-service basisand whose serviceswere often beyond the reach of the poor. - P22
Disparaging statements about blacks as patients and the in-ability of education to improve their health fixed the responsi-bility for the state of black health solely on blacks themselves. - P28
Ignorance and poverty are everywhereassociated with disease and vice. Filth and contagion, coupledwith ignorance and indifference, always bringabout diseaseand death." - P36
"Diseasegerms are the most democratic creatures in the world," he re-minded his readers, "they know no distinction of ‘race, color,or previous condition of servitude" - P43
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