David McBride

Caring for Equality (eBook, PDF)

A History of African American Health and Healthcare

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881873288
• Artikelnr.: 74846779

Autorenporträt

David McBride has taught and published in African American health, medical care, and U. S. history for over twenty-five years. He has authored three books on black health and medical history: Missions for Science: U.S. Technology and Medicine in America's African World (Rutgers U Press, 2002), From TB to AIDS: Epidemics Among Urban Blacks Since 1900 (SUNY Press, 1991); and Integrating the City of Medicine: Blacks in Philadelphia Health Care, 1910-1965 (Temple U Press, 1988).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Slavery and the Medical Roots: Africa and the New World
Chapter 2: Battling For Life in the Civil War and Nadir Eras
Chapter 3: The Black Medical World: Great Migration to New Deal
Chapter 4: Civil Rights, Health Rights
Chapter 5: War on Poverty and the 'Medical Ghetto'
Chapter 6: Confronting the Black Health Crisis
Chapter 7: The Aids Era and the Time of Katrina
Bibliography
Chronology
Documents