Dying in the City of the Blues
Subtitle: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 2, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780807825846
Subjects: Haematology; Health systems & services; History of medicine; Medical anthropology; Racism & racial discrimination; Memphis; Medical Hematology; Sociology Of Medicine; Medical / Nursing; Tennessee; Medical; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Social Science / African-American Studies; sickle cell anemia; disease politics; disease research funding; History; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Sickle cell anemia
First sentence: In order to understand the health care system for African Americans that emerged in Memphis in the early twentieth century, we must first understand the city itself.