Caring for Equality
A History of African American Health and Healthcare
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3186497 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher D E Willoughby (Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 725-726 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaaa356 |
| OpenAlex | W3111116648 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In Caring for Equality David McBride provides a synthetic history of African Americans and their allies' pursuits of what McBride terms the “health equality ideal,” from the period of enslavement to the present. The “health equality ideal,” as McBride defines it, refers to the notion that African Americans' health “should be of an equal priority to that of whites and other Americans” (p. xi). Organized chronologically, Caring for Equality acts as a useful companion to Harriet A. Washington's Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (2006), telling alternately how African Americans sought to preserve their own health. The first three chapters are organized around three periods prior to World War II: the era of enslavement, Civil War and nadir era, and the period of the Great Migration and New Deal. McBride's analysis of the slavery era not only relates well-known
Art · Colonialism · Health care · Ideal (ethics · Period (music · Political science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Gender Studies · History · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Public Health Policies and Education · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |