Water, Race, and Disease

Author: Werner Troesken
Edition:
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: B005ZOB47E
Category: Medical

Water, Race, and Disease (NBER Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development)

Why, at the peak of the Jim Crow era early in the twentieth century, did life expectancy for African Americans rise dramatically? And why, when public officials were denying African Americans access to many other public services, did public water and sewer service for African Americans improve and expand? Using the qualitative and quantitative tools of demography, economics, geography, history, law, and medicine, Werner Troesken shows that the answers to these questions are closely connected. Download Water, Race, and Disease medical books for free.
Arguing that in this case, racism led public officials not to deny services but to improve them -- the only way to "protect" white neighborhoods against waste from black neighborhoods was to install water and sewer systems in both -- Troesken shows that wh Get Water, Race, and Disease our bestseller medical books.

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