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Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired moves beyond the depiction of African Americans as mere recipients of aid or as victims of neglect and highlights the ways black health activists created public health programs and influenced public policy at every opportunity. Smith also sheds new light on the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment by situating it within the context of black public health activity, reminding us that public health work had oppressive as well as progressive consequences.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 288
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Series: Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving
Publication Date:
03 August 2010
ISBN: 9780812200270
Format: eBook
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Political activism / Political engagement, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery
"Susan Smith's book addresses one of the most understudied aspects of African American and American public health and medical history: the emergence of black health activism in the United States. . . . Drawing upon an impressive range of archival sources deposited at historically black colleges, and upon interviews and oral histories, Smith's case studies of the work of black midwives, public health nurses, and sorority women support her argument that black women played a key role in black health reform for much of this century."