“Peace & Health” Author Charles Barber In Conversation with Community Health Center, Inc. Founder Mark Masselli

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Don’t miss a special discussion about Middletown’s homegrown initiative to change the future of healthcare!
 
In Peace & Health, Charles Barber tells the compelling story of a 20-year-old Mark Masselli, who in 1972 plants the flag for health equity in his hometown of Middletown; the daughter of a sharecropper, Reba Moses, who made her way north during the great migration and becomes the North Star of the drive to transform health in the community; the son of a Jewish émigré and pharmacist, Gerry Weitzman, who breaks from his peers to support the cause; the musician and CHC board member, James Moody, Sr., who played in the big bands of the South in the 1930’s; and the Wesleyan student and future US Senator, John Hickenlooper, who helps buy the building so the free clinic would not be shut down permanently.
 
"Libraries and readers interested not just in healthcare advocacy, but the process of reinventing a system from the microcosm of building a clinic and pathways to using it will find Peace & Health not just idealistic and inspiring, but practical in charting routes to achieving community goals."  - Midwest Book Review
 
Peace & Health also offers an incisive exploration of healthcare in America, from local politics to federal funding battles; an investigation of the impact of community organizing with takeaways for today’s activists; and the importance of patient involvement in the creation of places that are said to serve them but so frequently ignore their needs. Learn more about the book at PeaceAndHealth.com