A city without care: 300 years of racism, health disparities, and healthcare activism in New Orleans

"New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history. It's also long been a site of some of the most intense racially based medical inequities in the United States. Kevin McQueeney traces that inequity for 300 years of the city's history, beginning at its founding in 171...

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Main Author: McQueeney, Kevin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press [2023]
Series:Studies in social medicine
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Summary:"New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history. It's also long been a site of some of the most intense racially based medical inequities in the United States. Kevin McQueeney traces that inequity for 300 years of the city's history, beginning at its founding in 1718. McQueeney argues that this racist system emerged as a key component of the slave-based economy in the city, which quickly became institutionalized with the end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow. He also shows that, despite legislation and court victories in the Civil Rights era, an apartheid health care system still exists today"--
Physical Description:xii, 271 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 25 cm
ISBN:9781469673929
9781469673912

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