Book contents
- Embodied Injustice
- Embodied Injustice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Health Disparities Based on Race and Disability
- 3 Biology’s (In)significance
- 4 Medical Mistrust
- 5 Maligned Mothers
- 6 Medicaid Preservation
- 7 Beyond Health Care
- 8 COVID Stories
- 9 The Busy, Troubled Intersection of Blackness and Disability
- 10 Conclusion
- Index
8 - COVID Stories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2022
Book contents
- Embodied Injustice
- Embodied Injustice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Health Disparities Based on Race and Disability
- 3 Biology’s (In)significance
- 4 Medical Mistrust
- 5 Maligned Mothers
- 6 Medicaid Preservation
- 7 Beyond Health Care
- 8 COVID Stories
- 9 The Busy, Troubled Intersection of Blackness and Disability
- 10 Conclusion
- Index
Summary
The unfolding of the COVID-19 pandemic provided the American public with a master class on health care inequality and how vulnerability to ill health is created. Black people and disabled people, along with folks in other marginalized communities, have suffered disproportionately from the coronavirus’s ravages of sickness and death, as well as its economic burden.
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- Embodied InjusticeRace, Disability, and Health, pp. 178 - 200Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022