Sounding the Alarm for White America—and Maybe the Rest of Us
Year: 2021
Type: book-review
Abstract: The rise in mortality Case and Deaton uncovered is extremely rare Since the 1918 flu pandemic, only the Soviet Union before its collapse and Africa in the midst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic have experienced declining life expectancy [ ]Woolf et al also showed that an increase in occurred for a wide range of causes, beyond deaths of despair [ ]it may be more useful to consider racism, and how it has shaped US capitalism and its inequalities, not despair, as our most lethal killer >4jPH CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence should be sent to Mary T Bassett, MD, Director, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, 651 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: mbassett@hsph harvard edu)
Author: Mary T. Bassett
Institution: Harvard University
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3135545337