Edited by David Satcher and Rubens J. Pamies. 577 pp. New York, McGraw-Hill, 2006. $59.95. ISBN 0-07-143680-4.
Intermittently, but all too fleetingly, the American publicfocuses attention on the connections among race, ethnic group,social class, poverty, marginalization, and access to healthcare and other resources and recognizes the effect that thesefactors have on the health of minority populations. This awarenesswas apparent most recently in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,which both symbolized and exposed the realities of life anddeath in New Orleans's black Ninth Ward before the storm. However,the same story was told in the 1940s, in chapters on race andhealth in Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma (New York: Harper& . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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