Mama Might Be Better Off Dead

副标题: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America

ISBN: 9780226001395

出版社: University Of Chicago Press

出版年: 1994-11-15

页数: 297

定价: USD 15.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

This critically acclaimed book is an unsettling, profound look at the human face of health care. Both disturbing and illuminating, it is the story of four generations of a poor African American family coping with the devastating illnesses that are all too common in America's inner cities. From visits to emergency rooms and dialysis units, to trials with home care, to struggles for Medicaid eligibility, Abraham chronicles the Banes family and their access (or lack of access) to medical care. Embedded in the family narrative is a lucid analysis of the gaps, inconsistencies, and inequalities the poor face when they seek health care.