Health, Death and Disease in America. 

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An examination of American medicine from the colonial era through the present from a multi-cultural perspective, including how measures of health determined the monetary value of enslaved Americans in the colonial and antebellum eras and how Americans ability to access healthcare has been based upon their race, class, gender, and (dis)ability. Also addresses challenges to established medical practices launched by the womens health movement, civil rights activists, the Black Panther Party, and the right-to-die movement.