An American Health Dilemma - Race, Medicine, and Health Care in the United States 1900-2000

Backed by exhaustive research, Byrd and Clayton argue that healthcare racism is a systemic, culturally embedded problem that in the last hundred years has been marked by small gains, disastrous setbacks, and a passive acceptance of African Americans as a permanent health underclass.

List of contents

Introduction; I: Race, Medicine, and Health in Early Twentieth-Century America; One: Black Americans and the Health System in the Early Twentieth Century, 1901-1929; Two: Black Americans and the Health System during the Great Depression and World War II, 1930–1945; II: Race, Medicine, and Health before, during, and after the Black Civil Rights Era; Three: Black Americans and the Health System from World War II through the Civil Rights Era, 1945–1965; Four: Civil Rights Gains, Conservative Retrenchment, and Black Healthy 1965–1980; Five: The Medical Profession during an Era of Civil Rights Gains and Conservative Retrenchment 1965–1980; Six: Western Science's Deep, Dark Secret and the U.S. Health System's Mendacious Legacy; III: The Coming of the Corporation; Seven: Retrenchment and a Dream Deferred: The Black Health Crisis of the 1980s and 1990s; IV: Race, Medicine, Health Reform, and the Future; Eight: Black and Disadvantaged Health, Health Reform, and the Future

About the author

W. Michael Byrd, Linda A. Clayton

Summary

A monumental and original work of scholarship, An American Health Dilemma will be the essential reference about black medical health experience for years to come.

Product details

• Authors: W. Michael Byrd, Byrd W. Michael, Linda A. Clayton, Clayton Linda A.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.12.2001
• EAN: 9780415927376
• ISBN: 978-0-415-92737-6
• No. of pages: 890
• Weight: 1360 g
• Illustrations: farbige Illustrationen
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Ethnic Studies, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, Health systems & services, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Black & Asian Studies, Health systems and services, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General