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Black Health

The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health

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Buch | Hardcover
234 Seiten
2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-762026-7 (ISBN)
88,50 inkl. MwSt
Why do American Black people generally have worse health than American White people? To answer this question, Black Health dispels any notion that Black people have inferior bodies that are inherently susceptible to disease. This is simply false racial science used to justify White supremacy and Black inferiority. A genuine investigation into the status of Black people's health requires us to acknowledge that race has always been a powerful social category that gives access to the resources we need for health and wellbeing to some people, while withholding them from other people.

Systemic racism, oppression, and White supremacy in American institutions have largely been the perpetrators of differing social power and access to resources for Black people. It is these systemic inequities that create the social conditions needed for poor health outcomes for Black people to persist. An examination of social inequities reveals that is no accident that Black people have poorer health than White people. Black Health provides a succinct discussion of Black people's health, including the social, political, and at times cultural determinants of their health. Using real stories from Black people, Ray examines the ways in which Black people's multiple identities--social, cultural, and political--intersect with American institutions--such as housing, education, environmentalism, and health care--to facilitate their poor outcomes in pregnancy and birth, pain management, sleep, and cardiovascular disease.

Keisha Ray is an Associate Professor of bioethics and medical humanities at McGovern Medical School in Houston, Texas. Her research focuses on the socio-political determinants of Black people's health and exposing structural racism's effects on Black people's health and wellbeing.

Preface
Introduction: What is Black Health?
Chapter 1: Why are Hospital Births Unsafe for Black People?
Chapter 2: Who Believes Our Pain?
Chapter 3: Is Cardiovascular Disease A Part of the Black Experience?
Chapter 4: Does Where We Sleep Matter?

Acknowledgements
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Bioethics for Social Justice
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 210 x 140 mm
Gewicht 372 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitswesen
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
Naturwissenschaften Biologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-19-762026-4 / 0197620264
ISBN-13 978-0-19-762026-7 / 9780197620267
Zustand Neuware
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