Health Care Divided: Race and Healing a Nation

by David Barton Smith

Book Overview

David Barton Smith offers a complete chronicle of racial segregation and discrimination in health care in the United States using vivid first-hand accounts as well as current evidence of inequity in patterns of use and outcomes. Smith details judicial and federal efforts to address these disparities, discusses their persistence in more subtle forms, and offers possible strategies for ending them.
Health Care Divided tells the story from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047210991X
• ISBN13: 9780472109913
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The devil is in the details of how health care is divided

David B.Smith provides the detailed history of how the goal of equity in health care provision remains unfulfilled to this day. He analyzes the historic crucial time periods when decisions were made and practices established. He describes the mechanisms leading to different health care for white and black and for rich and poor. He documents the economic and the ethnic prejudicial bases for this abridgement of civil rights. This book is a must for all concerned about American justice.