W Michael Byrd, Linda A Clayton

An American Health Dilemma

A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race: Beginnings to 1900

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Produktbeschreibung

"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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 161mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 939g
• ISBN-13: 9780415924498
• ISBN-10: 0415924499
• Artikelnr.: 22266335

Autorenporträt

W. Michael Byrd, Linda A. Clayton

Inhaltsangabe

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