Caring for equality
Subtitle: a history of African American health and healthcare
By: David McBride
Series: African American history series (Lanham, Md.); African American history series (Lanham, Md.)
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781442260597
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Medical care; Health and hygiene; Health services accessibility; African Americans; History
Description: "African Americans today continue to suffer disproportionately from heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems. In Caring for Equality David McBride chronicles the struggle by African Americans and their white allies to improve poor black health conditions as well as inadequate medical care--caused by slavery, racism, and discrimination--since the arrival of African slaves in America."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Slavery and the medical roots: Africa and the New World; title: Battling for life in the Civil War and Nadir Eras; title: The black medical world: great migration to new deal; title: Civil rights, health rights; title: War on poverty and the "Medical Ghetto"; title: Confronting the black health crisis; title: The AIDS era and the time of Katrina.