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.
Author(s): David McBride
Series: The African American Experience Series
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 207
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1 Slavery and the Medical Roots......Page 16
2 Battling for Life in the Civil War and Nadir Eras......Page 32
3 The Black Medical World......Page 52
4 Civil Rights, Health Rights......Page 78
5 War on Poverty and the “Medical Ghetto”......Page 102
6 Confronting the Black Health Crisis......Page 126
7 The AIDS Era and the Time of Katrina......Page 146
Selected Bibliography......Page 168
Chronology......Page 174
Documents......Page 180
Notes......Page 194
Index......Page 200
