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Edited by Ronald L. Braithwaite and Sandra E. Taylor. 371 pp. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1992. $39.95 ISBN 1-55542-477-5.

Periodically, another Cassandra publishes more bad news about the health of African Americans. No one likes to see it coming because, short of eliminating racism or overhauling the health care system, there seems so little one can do about it.

This book may change such attitudes. State-of-the-art overviews, with abundant evidence of careful scholarship, describe the generally deplorable state of African Americans' health. But the message is not one of unrelenting gloom. Each chapter ends with a plan for remedying the problem discussed, and the grim statistics are put into proper perspective. The message is that low socioeconomic status, institutional . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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