Embodied Injustice : Race, Disability, and Health

by Mary Crossley

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10 1108830293

ISBN-13 9781108830294

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 25th, 2022

Print length 250 Pages

Weight 520 grams

Dimensions 23.50 x 15.70 x 2.00 cms

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Health justice is central to social justice. The Eugenics movement, involuntary medical experimentation, restrictive Medicaid reforms, and the COVID-19 pandemic reveal health inequities endured by Black Americans and disabled Americans as part of a common fabric. This book supplies a foundation for coordinated advocacy to advance health justice.

"On June 11, 2020, Michael Hickson died of complications of COVID-19. The father of five was forty-six years old. He had contracted the infection the month before while in a nursing home and was transferred on June 2 to a hospital in Austin, Texas. A Black man, Michael Hickson had a career as an auto insurance claims estimator, a career cut short when he experienced sudden cardiac arrest at just forty-three years old. Complications left him with quadriplegia, blindness, and brain injuries. Although he had difficulty speaking and remembering things, Michael Hickson continued to participate in his family''s life, joking with his children and talking with his wife about their lives"--

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