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A city without care : 300 years of racism, health disparities, and health care activism in New Orleans /

"New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history. It's also long been a site of some of the most intense racially based medical inequities in the United States. Kevin McQueeney traces that inequity for 300 years of the city's history, beginning at its founding in 171...

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Main Authors: McQueeney, Kevin (Author)
Published: The University of North Carolina Press,
Publisher Address: Chapel Hill :
Publication Dates: [2023]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Studies in social medicine
Subjects:
Discrimination in medical care > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
African Americans > Medical care > Louisiana > New Orleans.
African Americans > Segregation > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Louisiana > New Orleans.
African Americans > Medical care.
African Americans > Segregation.
Discrimination in medical care.
Race relations.
Slavery > Economic aspects.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
Summary: "New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history. It's also long been a site of some of the most intense racially based medical inequities in the United States. Kevin McQueeney traces that inequity for 300 years of the city's history, beginning at its founding in 1718. McQueeney argues that this racist system emerged as a key component of the slave-based economy in the city, which quickly became institutionalized with the end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow. He also shows that, despite legislation and court victories in the Civil Rights era, an apartheid health care system still exists today"--
Carrier Form: xii, 271 pages : illustrations, maps, forms ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-259) and index.
ISBN: 9781469673929
1469673924
Index Number: RA448
CLC: R199.712-09
Call Number: R199.712-09/M173
Contents: Health and health care in the era of slavery, 1718-1843 -- The growth of the slave-based health care economy, 1800-1861 -- The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the rise of Jim Crow health care, 1862-1900 -- A white medical district, 1900-1940 -- Jim Crow black health care, 1927-1950 -- Health care in the era of civil rights and resistance, 1960-1968 -- Two-tiered health care, 1965-1974 -- Black health care in the age of abandonment, 1975-2005 -- Black health and health care after Katrina.

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