A city without care : 300 years of racism, health disparities, and healthcare activism in New Orleans /

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"New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history. It's also long been a site of some of the most intense racially based medical inequities in the United States. Kevin McQueeney traces that inequity for 300 years of the city's history, beginning at its founding in 171...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McQueeney, Kevin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Series:Studies in social medicine.
Subjects:
Discrimination in medical care > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
African Americans > Medical care > Louisiana > New Orleans.
African Americans > Segregation > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Discrimination dans les soins médicaux > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Soins médicaux > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans.
Noirs américains > Ségrégation > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Health and healt care in the era of slavery, 1718-1843
  • The growth of the slave-based health care economy, 1800-1861
  • The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the rise of Jim Crow health care, 1862-1900
  • A white medical district, 1900-1940
  • Jim Crow Black health care, 1927-1950
  • Health care in the era of civil rights and resistance, 1950-1968
  • Two-tiered health care, 1965-1974
  • Black health care in the Age of Abandonment, 1975-2005
  • Conclusion : Black health and health care after Katrina.

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