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

"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 ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McQueeney, Kevin (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
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.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations.
African Americans > Medical care.
African Americans > Segregation.
Discrimination in medical care.
Race relations.
Slavery > Economic aspects.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xii, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Variant Title:
Three hundred years of racism, health disparities, and healthcare activism in New Orleans.
Format: Book

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