Elegy for a Scarred Shoulder

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.