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Inequality and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities Create Sickness
Shirley A. Hill
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Description for Inequality and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities Create Sickness
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL3; MBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive perspective on health and sickness among African Americans, showing how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts. It brings together data from existing quantitative and qualitative research with new archival and interview data, advancing research in the fields of families, race-ethnicity, and medical sociology.
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive perspective on health and sickness among African Americans, showing how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts. It brings together data from existing quantitative and qualitative research with new archival and interview data, advancing research in the fields of families, race-ethnicity, and medical sociology.
Product Details
Publisher
Policy Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
318g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447322825
SKU
V9781447322825
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Ref
99-50
About Shirley A. Hill
Professor Shirley Hill teaches courses on the family, medical sociology, social inequality, and qualitative methods at the University of Kansas. Her research examines the implications of social inequalities, especially those based on social class, gender, and race.
Reviews for Inequality and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities Create Sickness
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. - CHOICE An interesting and timely book which expands our understanding of how systemic oppressions (racism, ... Read more