1st Edition
An American Health Dilemma A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race: Beginnings to 1900
624 Pages
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Routledge
616 Pages
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Routledge
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At times mirroring and at times shockingly disparate to the rise of traditional white American medicine, the history of African-American health care is a story of traditional healers; root doctors; granny midwives; underappreciated and overworked African-American physicians; scrupulous and unscrupulous white doctors and scientists; governmental support and neglect; epidemics; and poverty.... Read more
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
Biography
W. Michael Byrd, Linda A. Clayton
