Sublime

type looked like the “old” traditional home with mother as moral guardian, the “space age” mother needed to go beyond inherited wisdom by cultivating professional skills to meet the challenges of the modern era.

For instance, experts assert that the vast majority of health gains in the last century have been due to environmental, economic, and social circumstances, with only 10 percent of all gains attributed to medical care.

Those who supported forced sterilization devalued Black life, but they also hoped to profit from Black women’s suffering in whatever form it took. White medical professionals and staff stood to financially profit when completing forced sterilizations. By one estimate, Fannie Lou Hamer’s initial procedure to remove a small tumor would have grossed

In the 1990s, my Chinese students and colleagues had attitudes toward health that impressed me as somewhat fearful. It wasn’t surprising, given China’s long history of poverty, epidemics, and natural disasters. Since then, the nation had become dramatically safer and more prosperous, but old mindsets endured, especially in families that were

The cost of healing was dwarfed by the cost of extending sick life; more people survived longer months with their lives hanging on a plastic tube, imprisoned in iron lungs, or hooked onto kidney machines. New sickness was defined and institutionalized; the cost of enabling people to survive in unhealthy cities and in sickening jobs skyrocketed.