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"--
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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"--
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The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780226796710 |
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Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Publication date: | 06/16/2021 |
Edition description: | First Edition, Enlarged |
Pages: | 255 |
Sales rank: | 1,112,444 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d) |
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