| Caring for Equality: A History of African American Health and Healthcare Contributor(s): McBride, David (Author), Moore, Jacqueline M. (Other), Mjagkij, Nina (Other) |
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ISBN: 1442260599 ISBN-13: 9781442260597 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $47.52 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Care Delivery - History | African American - Health & Fitness | Health Care Issues |
| Dewey: 362.108 |
| LCCN: 2018008806 |
| Series: African American Experience |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9.2" (1.00 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History - Topical - Health & Fitness |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): McBride, David: - David McBride has taught African American health, medical care, and U. S. history for over twenty-five years at three universities--University of Illinois (Springfield), State University of New York (Binghamton), and most recently, Pennsylvania State University (University Park). He has authored three books on black health and medical history: Missions for Science: U.S. Technology and Medicine in America's African World (Rutgers U Press, 2002), From TB to AIDS: Epidemics Among Urban Blacks Since 1900 (SUNY Press, 1991); and Integrating the City of Medicine: Blacks in Philadelphia Health Care, 1910-1965 (Temple U Press, 1988). He has also edited (or co-edited) three books on other areas of U. S. public health, world, and educational history. He is a long-standing panelist for the National Institutes of Health's program on special medical history projects. He has received grants to research black American health care policy and medical history projects from major foundations from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Simon Rifkind Foundation. |