An American Health Dilemma: A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race: Beginnings to 1900

by Linda A. Clayton and W. Michael Byrd

Book Overview

At times mirroring and at times shockingly disparate to the rise of traditional white American medicine, the history of African-American health care is a story of traditional healers; root doctors; granny midwives; underappreciated and overworked African-American physicians; scrupulous and unscrupulous white doctors and scientists; governmental support and neglect; epidemics; and poverty. Virtually every part of this story revolves around race...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415924499
• ISBN13: 9780415924498
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.5" x 9.9"