Health care divided
Subtitle: race and healing a nation
By: David Barton Smith.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Discrimination in medical care -- United States; African Americans -- Medical care
Description: "David Barton Smith offers a complete chronicle of racial segregation and discrimination in health care in the United States using vivid firsthand accounts as well as a formal review of the current evidence of inequity in patterns of use and outcomes. Smith details the efforts through the courts and federal regulation to address these disparities, discusses their persistence in more subtle forms, and offers possible strategies for ending them."--BOOK JACKET.

"This book will appeal to the general reader though will be of particular interest to those in or preparing for health related professions and to those interested in African American and recent American history, political science and organization behavior, public policy and race relations, and trends in health care in the absence of a national reform initiative."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-371) and index.
Table of contents: title: Race and health care in the United States; title: Attending the birth of the struggle; title: The North Carolina campaign; title: The federal offensive; title: The federal retreat; title: What happened and what didn't?; title: Race and long-term care; title: Race and prenatal care; title: Healing a nation.