The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills

"We hear plenty about the widening income gap between the rich and the poor in America and about the expanding distance separating the haves and the have-nots. But when detailing the many things that the poor have not, we often overlook the most critical--their health. The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans. In nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, David A. Ansell, MD, has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics. In The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of these realities, drawn from observations and stories of his patients"--

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Ansell MD, David A.
Published: 06/16/2021
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226796710
Pages: 255
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d