This is unimaginably important. Read the 🧵 for the awful details. So excited to read this.
#PHEthx #PHLaw #HistPubHealth #SocEpi #LegalEpi #StructuralViolence #HistoryMatters
(For more on the history of anti-Black racism and TB in particular, be sure to check out “Infectious Fear” by Samuel Kelton Roberts)
H/t @krisnelson
From: @wrigleyfield
https://fediscience.org/@wrigleyfield/110662513906585293
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field (@[email protected])
New paper w Aja Antoine-Jones, James Feigenbaum, Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, and Chris Muller "Racial Inequality in the Prime of Life: Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1906–1933" tells us two new things about the staggering racial inequity in this era (cont'd) #demography #sociology #history #RacialDisparities #mortality #EpidemiologicalTransition #HealthEquity #HistoricalDemography https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.4