Body and Soul : The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination /

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"Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nelson, Alondra (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2011]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Black Panther Party.
Black Panther Party
Social medicine.
Racism in medicine.
Race discrimination.
Prejudices.
Minorities > Medical care.
Health and race.
Discrimination in medical care.
African Americans > Medical care.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
Prejuges.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Discrimination dans les soins medicaux > États-Unis.
Minorites > Soins medicaux > États-Unis.
Race Relations > history
Prejudice
Patient Advocacy > history
History, 20th Century
Healthcare Disparities > history
African Americans > history
Health Status
Race discrimination > United States.
Minorities > Medical care > United States.
Sickle cell anemia > Treatment > Political aspects > United States.
Community health services > Political aspects > United States.
Social medicine > United States.
Health and race > United States.
Racism in medicine > United States.
Discrimination in medical care > United States.
African Americans > Medical care > United States.
United States.
United States
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : politics by other means
  • Introduction : serving the people body and soul
  • African American responses to medical discrimination before 1966
  • Origins of Black Panther Party health activism
  • The People's Free Medical Clinics
  • Spin doctors : the politics of sickle cell anemia
  • As American as cherry pie : contesting the biologization of violence
  • Conclusion : race and health in the post-civil rights era.

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