{"product_id":"no-greater-privilege-a-yankee-physician-in-king-cottons-court-paperback","title":"No Greater Privilege: A Yankee Physician in King Cotton's Court - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. J. Kirschenfeld\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJack Kirschenfeld's compelling autobiography opens with a vivid account of his own heart attack, and concludes with a candid appraisal of the state of medicine in the United States at the close of the 20th century. In between, he takes the reader on a journey across seven decades, as a young immigrant grows up in New York, beats the odds to get into medical school, goes to war, and improbably launches a medical career in the heart of the Deep South. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLowndes County, Alabama, where the young doctor moved his family to set up his practice in 1946, was then and still is one of the poorest counties in the United States. Though King Cotton has long been dethroned, magnificent antebellum plantation mansions still stand in close proximity to dilapidated tenant shacks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the Kirschenfelds arrived, Jim Crow segregation was still the order of the day, and the Black Panther Party, which was born in Lowndes County, was yet unimaginable. The Selma-to-Montgomery march and the murder by Ku Klux Klansmen of Viola Liuzzo were still in the county's future, though the signs of the coming civil rights movement were there for the keen observer. The population of Lowndes County, for example, was 80 percent black, yet in 1946 there was not a single registered black voter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis was a peculiar environment for a Yankee doctor, yet Kirschenfeld could not have found his patients there any stranger than they found him. But over the next fourteen years, doctor and patients grew to know--and trust--one another. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1960, Kirschenfeld moved his medical practice to Montgomery, where the turbulent social changes brewing in Lowndes County reached their dramatic conclusion, with George Wallace's flagrant assaults on the civil rights decisions of U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr., whom Kirschenfeld served as personal physician. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe changing political landscape was no more dramatic than the advances taking place in medicine, and Kirschenfeld participated in those as well, writing medical articles and traveling weekly to Birmingham to take part in teaching rounds at the acclaimed University of Alabama School of Medicine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKirschenfeld was recognized by his peers with the \"Internist of the Year\" award and also the Laureate Award of the Alabama Chapter of the American College of Physicians.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe late J. J. KIRSCHENFELD (1919-2004) was born in 1919 in Austria, came to the US in 1923, and grew up in New York City. A graduate of Brooklyn College, he earned a medical degree at New York University, and was a medical resident and flight surgeon for the US military during World War II. He was married for more than 60 years to the former Helen Chapin (now also deceased); they had five children. When not writing, teaching, or practicing medicine, Kirshenfeld enjoyed photography, painting, and music. Though a rural physician for most of his career, he later founded Alabama's first graduate medical education program that was physically remote from one of the state's two medical schools; the program is now known as the UAB Montgomery Internal Residency Program. He served as emeritus professor of medicine at the University of Alabama School of Medicine until his death in Montgomery in 2004.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48394525376733,"sku":"9781588383525","price":31.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/SgWJfe5Dda9781588383525.webp?v=1787163629","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/no-greater-privilege-a-yankee-physician-in-king-cottons-court-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}