Health Colonialism

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Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers

By Shiloh Krupar

Series: Forerunners: Ideas First

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Health Colonialism examines how U.S. urban development policies shape the inequitable distribution of health care. Shiloh Krupar explores the racial disparities caused by elite American hospitals and their impact on surrounding neighbourhoods. She introduces the concept of "medical brownfields" to describe hospital-controlled areas ripe for redevelopment, showing how these institutions expand their real estate influence domestically while pursuing global commercial interests.

The book critiques the role of nonprofit medical institutions and the liberal foundations of medical apartheid perpetuated through globalised American health care, arguing for a decolonised approach to health care reform that addresses land use and real estate strategies.
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This book is suited for readers interested in urban development, health disparities, social justice, and the intersection of healthcare systems with racial inequity. It will appeal to students and professionals in education, public health, sociology, and policy studies.

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The role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheid

Health Colonialism considers how U.S. urban development policies contribute to the uneven and unjust distribution of health care in this country. Here, Shiloh Krupar investigates the racially inequitable effects of elite U.S. hospitals on their surrounding neighbourhoods and their role in consolidating frontiers of land primed for redevelopment.

Naming this frontier "medical brownfields," Krupar shows how hospitals leverage their domestic real estate empires to underwrite international prospecting for patients and overseas services and speciality clinics. Her pointed analysis reveals that decolonising health care efforts must scrutinise the land practices of non-profit medical institutions and the liberal foundations of medical apartheid perpetuated by globalising American health care.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781517915421

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 March 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Minnesota Press

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 178.0mm

Weight: 113g

Pages: 110

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature Series: Forerunners: Ideas First Shiloh Krupar

About the Author

Shiloh Krupar is a geographer and Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor in the Culture and Politics Program at Georgetown University. She is author of Hot Spotter's Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste and coauthor of Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-Making (both from Minnesota). Krupar coedited A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado and codirected the National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service.