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Too often this story of inequity and disadvantage in health gets dismissed as “only” affecting the poor, or being one of class, not race. It is indisputable that poverty creates emotional disruption, inequality, and fear. Health-care facilities in lower-income communities are often underfunded and left to waste away. The poorest communities lack
... See moreLinda Villarosa • Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
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UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.
David Armstrongpropublica.org
Rachel Naomi Remen, who once observed,
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
People who are treated as less than fully human by the social order are more susceptible to tuberculosis. But it’s not because of their moral codes or choices or genetics; it’s because they are treated as less than fully human by the social order.
John Green • Everything Is Tuberculosis
ideas argue that racist policies are the cause
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
are ravaging bodies in Eastern and Southern Africa, a region already containing 25 percent of the world’s malnourished population. Human-made environmental catastrophes disproportionately harming bodies of color are not unusual; for instance, nearly four thousand U.S. areas—mostly poor and non-White—have higher lead poisoning rates than Flint,
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