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Summary:

African Americans today continue to suffer disproportionately from heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems. 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. Black American health progress resulted from the steady influence of what David McBride calls the health equality ideal: the principle that health of black Americans could and should be equal to that of whites and other Americans. Including a timeline, selected primary sources, and an extensive bibliographic essay, McBride's book provides a superb starting point for students and readers who want to explore in greater depth this important and understudied topic in African American history.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Slavery and the medical roots
• Battling for life in the Civil War and Nadir Eras
• The black medical world
• Civil rights, health rights
• War on poverty and the "medical ghetto"
• Confronting the black health crisis
• The AIDS era and the time of Katrina.

Author/Creator:

McBride, David, 1949- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Caring for equality: a history of African American health and healthcare [by McBride, D.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Caring for equality [by McBride, D.] (Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018] — ISBN 9781442260597; LCCN 2018008806; OCLC Number 1025361634)

Related Series:

African American history series (Lanham, Md.)

Subjects:

Minorities — Health and hygiene — United States

African Americans — Health and hygiene — History

African Americans — Medical care

African Americans — History

African Americans — Race identity

Racism — United States — History

African Americans — Social conditions

Minorities — Health and hygiene

Minorities

African Americans — Health and hygiene

African Americans

Racism

United States

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

RA448.5.N4 M337 2018eb

ISBNs:

9781442260603 (ebook)
1442260602
9781442260597 (cloth, alk. paper) [Invalid]
1442260599 (hardcover, alk. paper) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2018009169

OCLC Numbers:

1025433962