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Author Smith, David Barton, author

Title Malicious intent : murder and the perpetuation of Jim Crow health care / David Barton Smith
Published Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations
Contents Race and Recovery of Memory. A Forgotten Death ; Jim Crow America's Health System ; The Death of Universal Health Care -- Mobile. The Lost Cause ; Struggles with Jim Crow ; Jim Crow Medicine -- Jean Cowsert, MD. Growing Up ; An Irresistible Force Meets an Immovable Object ; Cowsert and the Cages
Summary "David Barton Smith traces the Jean Cowsert story and the cold case of her death as a through line to explain the construction and fulfillment of an unequal healthcare system that would rather sacrifice many than provide for Black Americans"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 19, 2023)
Subject Cowsert, Jean, 1925-1967.
Discrimination in medical care -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History
Discrimination in medical care -- United States -- History
African Americans -- Medical care -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History
African Americans -- Medical care -- History
Medical care -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History
Medical care -- United States -- History
Racism against Black people -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History
Racism against Black people -- United States -- History
Education, Medical
Physicians -- supply & distribution
Health Services -- supply & distribution
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
African Americans -- Medical care
Discrimination in medical care
Medical care
Racism against Black people
SUBJECT Alabama
Subject Alabama -- Mobile
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023031034
ISBN 082650616X
9780826506153
0826506151
9780826506160