Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
The death gap : how inequality kills / David A. Ansell, MD.
Author
Ansell, David A.
[Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
©2017
Description
xviii, 235 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Details
Subject(s)
Social medicine
—
United States
[Browse]
Equality
—
Health aspects
—
United States
[Browse]
Poverty
—
Health aspects
—
United States
[Browse]
Racism
—
Health aspects
—
United States
[Browse]
Health
—
Social aspects
—
United States
[Browse]
Health and race
—
United States
[Browse]
Discrimination in medical care
—
United States
[Browse]
Medical policy
—
United States
[Browse]
Summary note
"We hear plenty about the widening income gap between the rich and the poor in America and about the expanding distance dividing the haves and the have-nots. But when detailing the many things that the poor have not, we often overlook the most critical their health. The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans. In nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, David Ansell has witnessed the lives behind these devastating statistics firsthand. In 'The Death Gap', he gives a grim survey of these realities, drawn from observations and stories of his patients. While the contrasts and disparities in Chicago's communities are particularly stark, the death gap is truly a nationwide epidemic as Ansell shows, there is a thirty-five-year difference in life expectancy between the healthiest and wealthiest and the poorest and sickest American neighborhoods. It doesn't need to be this way; such divisions are not inevitable. Ansell calls out the social and cultural arguments that have been raised as ways of explaining or excusing these gaps, and he lays bare the structural violence the racism, economic exploitation, and discrimination that is really to blame. Inequality is a disease, Ansell argues, and we need to treat and eradicate it as we would any major illness. To do so, he outlines a vision that will provide the foundation for a healthier nation - for all."--Jacket flap.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-222) and index.
Contents
Preface: one street, two worlds
American roulette. American roulette
Structural violence and the death gap
Location, location, location
Perception is reality
The three Bs: beliefs, behavior, biology
Trapped by inequity. Fire and rain: life and death in natural disasters
Mass incarceration, premature death, and community health
Immigration status and health inequality: the case of transplant
Health care inequality. The US health care system: separate and unequal
The poison pill: health insurance in America
The cure. Community efficacy and the death gap.
Community activism against structural violence
Observe, judge, act.
Show 11 more Contents items
ISBN
9780226428154 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
022642815X ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016055405
OCLC
958779966
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information