W Michael Byrd, Linda A Clayton

An American Health Dilemma

Race, Medicine, and Health Care in the United States 1900-2000

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Backed by exhaustive research, Byrd and Clayton argue that healthcare racism is a systemic, culturally embedded problem that in the last hundred years has been marked by small gains, disastrous setbacks, and a passive acceptance of African Americans as a permanent health underclass.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 890
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 166mm x 54mm
• Gewicht: 1361g
• ISBN-13: 9780415927376
• ISBN-10: 0415927374
• Artikelnr.: 21154792

Autorenporträt

W. Michael Byrd, Linda A. Clayton

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; I: Race
Medicine
and Health in Early Twentieth-Century America; One: Black Americans and the Health System in the Early Twentieth Century
1901-1929; Two: Black Americans and the Health System during the Great Depression and World War II
1930-1945; II: Race
Medicine
and Health before
during
and after the Black Civil Rights Era; Three: Black Americans and the Health System from World War II through the Civil Rights Era
1945-1965; Four: Civil Rights Gains
Conservative Retrenchment
and Black Healthy 1965-1980; Five: The Medical Profession during an Era of Civil Rights Gains and Conservative Retrenchment 1965-1980; Six: Western Science's Deep
Dark Secret and the U.S. Health System's Mendacious Legacy; III: The Coming of the Corporation; Seven: Retrenchment and a Dream Deferred: The Black Health Crisis of the 1980s and 1990s; IV: Race
Medicine
Health Reform
and the Future; Eight: Black and Disadvantaged Health
Health Reform
and the Future