title: Professionalism behind barbed wire: health care in World War II Japanese-American concentration camps.
abstract: Physicians and nurses of Japanese ancestry provided health care to 110000 persons incarcerated by the US government during World War II. They faced immense public health challenges created by overcrowding and inadequate resources. Their extraordinary service to their community reflected their professional devotion to their patients and the values of their Japanese homeland.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Mercer University School of Medicine, Medical Center of Central Georgia, Macon, GA 31201, USA. nakayama.don@mccg.org
authors.forename: Don K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Nakayama
authors.forename: Gwenn M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Jensen
mesh_terms: D000533:Altruism; D001213:Asian / Q000266:history*; D003209:Concentration Camps / Q000266:history*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history*; D011287:Prejudice; D014481:United States; D047789:World War II