Body and soul : the Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination / Alondra Nelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Alondra, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Medical care--United States.

Minorities.

Discrimination in medical care--United States.

Discrimination in medical care.

Race discrimination--United States.

Race discrimination.

Black Panther Party.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

Summary:

Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but lesser-known aspect of the organization's broader struggle for social justice: health care. The Black Panther Party's health activism-its network of free health clinics, its campaign to raise awareness about genetic disease, and its challenges to medical discrimination-was an expression of its founding p

Contents:

Introduction : serving the people body and soul

African American responses to medical discrimination before 1966

Origins of Black Panther Party health activism

The people's free medical clinics

Spin doctors : the politics of sickle cell anemia

As American as cherry pie : contesting the biologization of violence

Conclusion : race and health in the post-civil rights era.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4816-X

0-8166-7875-8

OCLC:

768082780