Inequality and African-American Health - by Shirley Hill (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This is the first book to offer a comprehensive perspective on health and sickness among African Americans. It shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This is the first book to offer a comprehensive perspective on health and sickness among African Americans. It shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"This relatively short book gives a panoramic view of inequality in African American health. . . . Hill illustrates contemporary racial disparities in health in a deeper historical background, tracing racism and negative health outcomes for African Americans back to the slavery period, revealing how historical and structural inequalities maintain and foster contemporary disparities. The author also goes beyond medical data to analyze inequality in African American health in a wider social context, referencing the factors of prejudices of the medical profession, health policies, economic status, incarcerations, sexuality and marriage, and child-rearing patterns. Racial disparities in all of these factors exert negative impact on the health of African Americans and are widely accepted as major causes of health crises. The book's comprehensive coverage of racial disparities provides abundant information to help readers grasp an overall view of this issue, as well as premises for future research. A sufficiently broad, specific, timely, and balanced book on African American health issues for anyone. Highly recommended."--A. Y. Lee, George Mason University "Choice"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Shirley A. Hill</b> teaches courses on the family, medical sociology, social inequality, and qualitative methods at the University of Kansas. She is the author, most recently, of <i>Families: A Social Class Perspective</i>.
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