Mama Might be Better Off Dead: Failure of Health Care in Urban America by Laurie Kaye Abraham
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Mama Might be Better Off Dead
Summary
This study of health care in the USA looks at four generations of a poor African-American family beset with illnesses. From visits to emergency rooms and dialysis units, through trials with home care, to struggles for Medicaid eligibility, the text chronicles their access to medical care.
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Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Where crowded humanity suffers and sickens: The Banes family and their neighborhood 2: The rigors of kidney dialysis for Robert Banes 3: Gaps in government insurance for Mrs. Jackson 4: Fitful primary care fails Mrs. Jackson 5: Mrs. Jackson's melancholy 6: The inner-city emergency room 7: One hospital's story: How treating the poor is bad for business 8: Who's responsible for Tommy Markhams's health? 9: Jackie Banes's patient 10: Empty promises: Preventive care for the Banes children 11: Robert Banes plays the transplant game 12: The Banes family and white doctors 13: Life-sustaining technology 14: Amazing grace Epilogue Appendix Notes
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CIN0226001385G
9780226001388
0226001385
Mama Might be Better Off Dead: Failure of Health Care in Urban America by Laurie Kaye Abraham
Used - Good
Hardback
The University of Chicago Press
19931115
302
N/A
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