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"Unlike other books on this topic, the second edition will continue to focus primarily on the social justice issues associated with health disparities with an aim towards solutions. The new edition, like its predecessor, with a focus on racial and ethnic emerging majorities, will acknowledge that health disparities persist but provide insight as to why, with an emphasis on how to remedy the problems rather than just research and converse about it....
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Drawing on research from around the world, this atlas gives shape and meaning to statistics, making it an indispensable resource for understanding global inequalities and an inspiration for social and political action. Inequality underlies many of the challenges facing the world today, and The Atlas of Global Inequalities considers the issue in all its dimensions.
4) Sick from freedom: African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
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Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people. In Sick from Freedom, Downs recovers the untold story of one of the bitterest...