Inequality and African-American health : how racial disparities create sickness

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Inequality and African-American health : how racial disparities create sickness

Shirley A. Hill

Policy Press, 2016

  • : hbk.

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This book shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system. Black-white disparities in health, illness, and mortality have been widely documented, but most research has focused on single factors that produce and perpetuate those disparities, such as individual health behaviors and access to medical care. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive perspective on health and sickness among African Americans, starting with an examination of how race has been historically constructed in the US and in the medical system and the resilience of racial ideologies and practices. Racial disparities in health reflect racial inequalities in living conditions, incarceration rates, family systems, and opportunities. These racial disparities often cut across social class boundaries and have gender-specific consequences. Bringing together data from existing quantitative and qualitative research with new archival and interview data, this book advances research in the fields of families, race-ethnicity, and medical sociology.

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Introduction Part One: Theorizing Social Inequalities in Health Race, Racism, and Sickness Slavery and Freedom Part Two: Health and Medicine Health Behaviors in Social Context Medical Care and Health Policy Part Three: Health and Families Economic Decline and Incarceration Love, Sexuality and (Non)Marriage Children's Health

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