Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers (Forerunners: Ideas First)

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The role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheidHealth Colonialism considers how U.S. urban development policies contribute to the uneven and unjust distribution of health care in this country. Here, Shiloh Krupar investigates the racially inequitable effects of elite U.S. hospitals on their surrounding neighborhoods and their role in consolidating frontiers of land primed for redevelopment. Naming this frontier &“medical brownfields,&” Krupar shows how hospitals leverage their domestic real estate empires to underwrite international prospecting for patients and overseas services and specialty clinics. Her pointed analysis reveals that decolonizing health care efforts must scrutinize the land practices of nonprofit medical institutions and the liberal foundations of medical apartheid perpetuated by globalizing American health care.
Copyright:
2023

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ISBN-13:
9781452969619
Related ISBNs:
9781517915421
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
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Taylor and Francis Group, LLC, a division of Informa plc
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Medicine, Politics and Government, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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