Uncertain Suffering: Racial Health Care Disparities and Sickle Cell Disease

by Carolyn Rouse and Carolyn Moxley Rouse

Book Overview

On average, black Americans are sicker and die earlier than white Americans. Uncertain Suffering provides a richly nuanced examination of what this fact means for health care in the United States through the lens of sickle cell anemia, a disease that primarily affects blacks. In a wide ranging analysis that moves from individual patient cases to the compassionate yet distanced professionalism of health care specialists to the level of national policy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520259122
• ISBN13: 9780520259126
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"