Building the Worlds That Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History

by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz

Book Overview

Across American history, the question of whose lives are long and healthy and whose lives are short and sick has always been shaped by the social and economic order. From the dispossession of Indigenous people and the horrors of slavery to infectious diseases spreading in overcrowded tenements and the vast environmental contamination caused by industrialization, and through climate change and pandemics in the twenty-first century, those in power...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231200854
• ISBN13: 9780231200851
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 408 Pages