An American Health Dilemma

Backed by exhaustive research, Byrd and Clayton argue that healthcare racism is a systemic, culturally embedded problem that in the last hundred years has been marked by small gains, disastrous setbacks, and a passive acceptance of African Americans as a permanent health underclass.

W. Michael Byrd, Linda A. Clayton

Introduction; I: Race, Medicine, and Health in Early Twentieth-Century America; One: Black Americans and the Health System in the Early Twentieth Century, 1901-1929; Two: Black Americans and the Health System during the Great Depression and World War II, 1930-1945; II: Race, Medicine, and Health before, during, and after the Black Civil Rights Era; Three: Black Americans and the Health System from World War II through the Civil Rights Era, 1945-1965; Four: Civil Rights Gains, Conservative Retrenchment, and Black Healthy 1965-1980; Five: The Medical Profession during an Era of Civil Rights Gains and Conservative Retrenchment 1965-1980; Six: Western Science's Deep, Dark Secret and the U.S. Health System's Mendacious Legacy; III: The Coming of the Corporation; Seven: Retrenchment and a Dream Deferred: The Black Health Crisis of the 1980s and 1990s; IV: Race, Medicine, Health Reform, and the Future; Eight: Black and Disadvantaged Health, Health Reform, and the Future