Caring for Equality: A History of African American Health and Healthcare

by David McBride, Jacqueline M. Moore (Series Editor), Nina Mjagkij (Series Editor)

African Americans today continue to suffer disproportionately from heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems. In Caring for Equality David McBride chronicles the struggle by African Americans and their white allies to improve poor black health conditions as well as inadequate medical care—caused by slavery, racism, and discrimination—since the arrival of African slaves in America. Black American health progress resulted from the steady influence of what David McBride calls the health equality the principle that health of black Americans could and should be equal to that of whites and other Americans. Including a timeline, selected primary sources, and an extensive bibliographic essay, McBride’s book provides a superb starting point for students and readers who want to explore in greater depth this important and understudied topic in African American history.

208 pages, Hardcover

Published August 24, 2018

Reviews

[Meg1128 · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book lays out the history of Black healthcare, and the fight for health equity, from the days of enslavement through the early 2010’s. While it presents a lot of interesting information, and statistics, instead of being a fascinating read it was felt like a textbook as well as wandering through its narrative in places. This is a book you read to offer citations for your own article rather than curled up on the couch, and that’s fine. Just good to know what you’re getting into.

[NCHS Library]

From Follett: ''In Caring for Equality' David McBride chronicles the struggle by African Americans and their white allies to improve poor black health conditions as well as inadequate medical care--caused by slavery, racism, and discrimination--since the arrival of African slaves in America"--Provided by publisher.

[Desta NIkus · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Caring for Equality: History of African American Health and Healthcare consists of a detailed history of the challenges of blacks in their starting from the era of the slave trade even till now adays concerning the healthcare disparities. They are suffering economically and mentally because they are exposed to different diseases due to the lack of healthcare settings.

[Mills College Library]

362.10899 M1192 2018