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A unique but fundamentally racist history has prevented the United States from providing the kind of healthcare assurances that are taken for granted in other industrialized nations. The underlying story is one of political, medical, and bureaucratic machinations, all motivated by a deliberate, racist design. In Race, Murder, and Medicine, 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.    Cowsert's suspicious death came at a key moment in the struggle for universal healthcare in the wealthiest country on earth. 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Smith details the efforts through the courtsand federal regulation to address these disparities, discusses their persistence in more subtle forms, and offers possible strategies for ending them. Health Care Divided: Race and Healing a Nation tells the story from 1920 to the present by distilling a narrative from archival records and interviews with key participants. The book traces the decisive role race has played in shaping the development of American medicine and our system of medical care and goes on to explore the effect of this legacy on the organization of long-term care for the elderly and prenatal care for infants. Identified here are lessons largely overlooked by health services leaders, researchers, and policy analysts and examines how this divided health system persists, both exacerbating and distorting racial disparities. Smith asserts that in spite of federal efforts to end segregation, health care remains, at best, more than half the distance between a fully separate and an integrated system. 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