An American Health Dilemma: Race, Medicine, and Health Care in the United States, 1900-2000
In this follow-up to the path-breaking An American Health  Dilemma: A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem  of Race (LJ 8/00), the authors, both senior research scientists  at the Harvard School of Public Health, complete their study of  African American healthcare. While the first book concentrated  on issues before 1900, this volume's statistic-packed and  thoroughly documented narrative explores 20th-century advances  in healthcare, the development of the insurance industry,  declining support for public health, and the myriad social and  economic factors that have had disparate impacts on the health  of black Americans. Continuing a troubling theme from their  first volume, the authors also probe the effects of racism in  the medical professions, which led to pernicious eugenics  theories and shocking medical experiments well into the 20th  century. Both volumes of this landmark study are essential for  medical and African American studies collections. Kathleen  Arsenault, Univ. of South Florida, St. Petersburg Lib.Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.