Caring for Equality
eBook - ePub

Caring for Equality

A History of African American Health and Healthcare

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Caring for Equality

A History of African American Health and Healthcare

About this book

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. Black American health progress resulted from the steady influence of what David McBride calls the health equality ideal: the principle that health of black Americans could and should be equal to that of whites and other Americans. Including a timeline, selected primary sources, and an extensive bibliographic essay, McBride's book provides a superb starting point for students and readers who want to explore in greater depth this important and understudied topic in African American history.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Slavery and the Medical Roots
  5. Battling for Life in the Civil War and Nadir Eras
  6. The Black Medical World
  7. Civil Rights, Health Rights
  8. War on Poverty and the ā€œMedical Ghettoā€
  9. Confronting the Black Health Crisis
  10. The AIDS Era and the Time of Katrina
  11. Selected Bibliography
  12. Chronology
  13. Documents
  14. Notes
  15. Index