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Title: Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America by Laurie Kaye Abraham ISBN: 0-226-00139-3 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Eye-opening read, but very left-wing
Comment: Mama was required reading for a graduate-level nursing course. It was very enlightening -- a poignant and heartbreaking look at a poor African-American family living in one of Chicago's worst neighborhoods. However, I found the author's style and choice of words biased towards the subjects and exceptionally left-wing. Not that these things really don't happen, but the author's descriptive language is heavily biased against the "system" while downplaying the flip side of the coin, that people need to take some individual responsibility for their actions. Abraham does her best (one would hope) to remain objective, but it is most definitely a narrative and should be treated as such. Still, definitely worth the read.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Read for Those Interested in Health Care Issues
Comment: I found this book to be a great resource for a description of health care coverage for the lower income bracket individuals and families. It discussed many of the loops that people have to go through in this process and how simply getting to the doctor's office is out of reach without the right resources. This was an insightful albeit incredibly difficult book to read. Health care workers should read this and get a feel for how something that seems very easy to say is almost impossible to do...this is worth the time and money!
Rating: 4
Summary: A wake-up call for the U.S.
Comment: The U.S. government would like us to think that we, being the lone superpower in the world today, have all of our own internal problems solved. Not so. There are millions of uninsured and underinsured people (many of them children) in the U.S. who struggle to meet their own basic (and more advanced) health care needs. This is often a foreign world to Americans raised with good health insurance coverage. Yet Abraham shows us that we cannot ignore the health care problems in our own backyard.
As a recent college graduate who is entering medical school this fall, I was challenged to think carefully about how I will choose to practice medicine in the coming years. Given what I now know, I feel a responsibility to help change the plight of the uninsured.
As a final word, the only reason I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 is because the personal narratives, while very revealing, get a little long-winded at times. Otherwise, it is a great book, one that I anticipate referencing frequently in the coming years.
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Title: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman ISBN: 0374525641 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 28 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Health Against Wealth: Hmos and the Breakdown of Medical Trust by George Anders ISBN: 0395822823 Publisher: Mariner Books List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Medical Sociology (8th Edition) by William C. Cockerham ISBN: 0130165573 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 04 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $70.00 |
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Title: The Improvement Guide : A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance by Gerald J. Langley, Kevin M. Nolan, Clifford L. Norman, Lloyd P. Provost, Thomas W. Nolan, Clifford L. Norman ISBN: 0787902578 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 12 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $48.00 |
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Title: Developing Health Promotion Programs by David J. Anspaugh, Mark B. Dignan, Susan L. Anspaugh ISBN: 0815143745 Publisher: McGraw Hill Pub. Date: 17 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
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