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three years before my birth. In the United States, African Americans are 25 percent more likely to die of cancer than Whites. My father survived prostate cancer, which kills twice as many Black men as it does White men. Breast cancer disproportionately kills Black women.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
confine the spread of venereal disease
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
“lavender scare,”
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
By 1932, the historian Henry E. Sigerist had noted that medicine’s systemizing impulses were “no longer concerned with man but with disease,” as Anderson and Mackay point out.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Most people have relatively small concentrations of this particle, but some individuals can have as much as one hundred times more than others. The variation is largely genetic, and an estimated 20 to 30 percent of the US population has levels high enough that they are at increased risk; also, people of African descent tend to have higher levels of
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