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Caring for equality : a history of African American health and healthcare /

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--...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McBride, David, 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
Colección:African American history series (Lanham, Md.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Slavery and the medical roots
  • Battling for life in the Civil War and Nadir Eras
  • The black medical world
  • Civil rights, health rights
  • War on poverty and the "medical ghetto"
  • Confronting the black health crisis
  • The AIDS era and the time of Katrina.