The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills (First Edition, Enlarged)

Author/Contributor(s):	Ansell MD, David A
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	06/16/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"We hear plenty about the widening income gap between the rich and the poor in America and about the expanding distance separating the haves and the have-nots. But when detailing the many things that the poor have not, we often overlook the most critical--their health. The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans. In nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, David A. Ansell, MD, has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics. In The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of these realities, drawn from observations and stories of his patients"--