An American Health Dilemma: A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race: Beginnings to 1900

ISBN-13: 9780415924498 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 624 str.

W. Michael Byrd; Linda A. Clayton

Opis

"An American Health Dilemma" presents a comprehensive, groundbreaking history of race, race relations and the African-American medical experience. It offers an extensive exam of the history of intellectual and scientific racism that evolved to give sanction to the mistreatment, medical abuse and neglect of African Americans, women and other non-White people. 41 illustrations.

Spis treści

Introduction; I: The Background; 1: Race, Biology, and Health Care in the United States: Reassessing a Relationship; 2: Race, Medicine, and Society: From Prehistoric to English Colonial Times; II: Race, Medicine, and Health in the North American Colonies and the Early U.S. Republic; 3: Black Health in the North American English Colonies, 1619–1730; 4: Black Health in the Republican Era, 1731–1812; III: Race, Medicine, and Health in the United States from 1812 to 1900; 5: Black Health and the Jacksonian and Antebellum Periods, 1812–1861; 6: The Civil War, Reconstruction, Post-Reconstruction, and Black Health, 1861–1900; Conclusion: Laying the Foundations of a Dual and Unequal Health System

O autorze

W. Michael Byrd, Linda A. Clayton