Healthcare reconsidered: forging community wellness among African Americans in the south.
This article details the history of Slossfield Hospital, an African American hospital and community center founded in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1937. During its New Deal-era existence it provided African American physicians institutional support for their medical practices. Additionally, as a community center, it addressed the socioeconomics of good health. This paper uses Slossfield as a case study to explore how some African Americans included the socioeconomic in their definition of public health during the New Deal, as well as to understand how these ideas were subsumed by more mainstream ideas about public health promulgated by black and white physicians and the local and federal governments.
Nelson
Jennifer
J
Women's Studies, University of Redlands, Redlands, California, USA. jennifer_nelson@redlands.edu
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