An American health dilemma. Volume II, Race, medicine, and health care in the United States, 1900-2000 / W. Michael Byrd, MD, MPH, Linda A. Clayton, MD, MPH ; with a foreword by Dr. H. Jack Geiger.

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Byrd, W. Michael [Browse]
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New York : Routledge, 2002.
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  • ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Foreword""; ""Foreword to Volume One""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Race, Medicine, and Health Care: A Problematic American Relationship""; ""On the Gap in Health Status between Black and White Americans""; ""A Different Perspective""; ""Race as a Sociocultural Concept and Tool for Analysis""; ""Race, Society, and Health in America: A Background""; ""Race, Society, and the Life Sciences: The Evolution of Western Health Systems""; ""Ancient Scientific Precursors""
  • ""The Renaissance, Race, and the Life Sciences""""Race and the Ages of Science and Enlightenment""; ""Medicine, Biology, and Slavery in an Age of Scientific Dominance""; ""Race, Medicine, Biology and Education Reform: Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century America""; ""Race, Medicine, Health Care, and Civil Rights""; ""Scientific Racism: The U.S. Archetype""; ""American Scientific Racism and the uBlind Spot""""; ""Tracing the Evolution of a Race- and Class-Based Health System""; ""New Challenges""; ""To Serve This Present Age?""
  • ""PART I Race, Medicine, and Health in Early Twentieth-Century America""""CHAPTER 1 Black Americans and the Health System in the Early Twentieth Century, 1901-1929""; ""The Medical-Social Environment in the Early Twentieth Century, 1901-1929""; ""Health System Arise: 1901-1929""; ""The Health System as Arbiter of Racial, Reproductive, and Social Control""; ""The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Black Health in the Early Twentieth Century""; ""A Golden Age of Medical Suzerainty: The European American Experience""; ""Another Golden Age of Medical Suzerainty: The African American Experience""
  • ""CHAPTER 2 Black Americans and the Health System during the Great Depression and World War II, 1930-1945""""A Health System Stressed: The Years of the Great Depression, 1930-1941""; ""World War II: The Health System, 1942-1945""; ""African American Health: 1930-1945""; ""Hegemony Denied: The Seeds Are Planted for White Medicine's Descent""; ""Black Doctors Come of Age: Fighting Back for Black Patients during the Depression and the War, 1930-1945""; ""PART II Race, Medicine, and Health before, during, and after the Black Civil Rights Era""
  • ""CHAPTER 3 Black Americans and the Health System from World War II through the Civil Rights Era, 1945-1965""""Peace Be Still""; ""Health Reform Resisted: Accommodation in the U.S. Health System, 1945-1965""; ""The Last Best Chance for Poor Americans: State and Charity Efforts""; ""Prelude To Progress: Black Health, 1945-1965""; ""A Profession under Siege: White Medicine, 1945-1965""; ""Wade in the Water: Blacks in Medicine and Health, 1945-1965""; ""An Era of Liberation Accompanies Health and Health Care Advance""; ""Persistent Old Problems: Universal Access and Scientific Racism""
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Race, medicine, and health care in the United States, 1900-2000
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  • 9781136600319 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1136600310 ((electronic bk.))
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925332734
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