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Subject(s)

• Minorities—Health and hygiene—United States [Browse]

Series

• African American history series (Lanham, Md.) [More in this series]
• African American history series

Summary note

In Caring for Equality David McBride chronicles the struggle by African Americans and their white allies to improve poor black health conditions as well as inadequate medical care-caused by slavery, racism, and discrimination-since the arrival of African slaves in America.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Slavery and the Medical Roots
• 2 Battling for Life in the Civil War and Nadir Eras
• 3 The Black Medical World
• 4 Civil Rights, Health Rights
• 5 War on Poverty and the "Medical Ghetto"
• 6 Confronting the Black Health Crisis
• 7 The AIDS Era and the Time of Katrina
• Selected Bibliography
• Chronology
• Documents
• Notes
• Index.

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ISBN

1-4422-6060-2

OCLC

1041911570

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