Caring for Equality

David McBride has taught and published in African American health, medical care, and U. S. history for over twenty-five years. He has authored three books on black health and medical history: Missions for Science: U.S. Technology and Medicine in America's African World (Rutgers U Press, 2002), From TB to AIDS: Epidemics Among Urban Blacks Since 1900 (SUNY Press, 1991); and Integrating the City of Medicine: Blacks in Philadelphia Health Care, 1910-1965 (Temple U Press, 1988).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Slavery and the Medical Roots: Africa and the New WorldChapter 2: Battling For Life in the Civil War and Nadir ErasChapter 3: The Black Medical World: Great Migration to New DealChapter 4: Civil Rights, Health RightsChapter 5: War on Poverty and the ‘Medical Ghetto’Chapter 6: Confronting the Black Health CrisisChapter 7: The Aids Era and the Time of KatrinaBibliographyChronologyDocuments

This concise yet inclusive text provides an impressive account of the many interconnected forces that have influenced health equity. In the present political environment, in which decades of gains—including equal access to health care and affirmative policies that ensure equal access to education and employment—are being eroded