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Body and Soul - The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination (Paperback)
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Body and Soul - The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination (Paperback)
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Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black
Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political
culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their
revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson
deftly recovers an indispensable but lesser-known aspect of the
organization's broader struggle for social justice: health care.
The Black Panther Party's health activism-its network of free
health clinics, its campaign to raise awareness about genetic
disease, and its challenges to medical discrimination-was an
expression of its founding political philosophy and also a
recognition that poor blacks were both underserved by mainstream
medicine and overexposed to its harms. Drawing on extensive
historical research as well as interviews with former members of
the Black Panther Party, Nelson argues that the Party's focus on
health care was both practical and ideological. Building on a long
tradition of medical self-sufficiency among African Americans, the
Panthers' People's Free Medical Clinics administered basic
preventive care, tested for lead poisoning and hypertension, and
helped with housing, employment, and social services. In 1971, the
party launched a campaign to address sickle-cell anemia. In
addition to establishing screening programs and educational
outreach efforts, it exposed the racial biases of the medical
system that had largely ignored sickle-cell anemia, a disease that
predominantly affected people of African descent. The Black Panther
Party's understanding of health as a basic human right and its
engagement with the social implications of genetics anticipated
current debates about the politics of health and race. That
legacy-and that struggle-continues today in the commitment of
health activists and the fight for universal health care.
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