{"product_id":"building-the-worlds-that-kill-us-disease-death-and-inequality-in-american-history-9780231200851","title":"Building the Worlds That Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcross 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 have left others behind. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough the lens of death and disease, \u003ci\u003eBuilding the Worlds That Kill Us\u003c\/i\u003e provides a new way of understanding the history of the United States from the colonial era to the present. David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz demonstrate that the changing rates and kinds of illnesses reflect social, political, and economic structures and inequalities of race, class, and gender. These deep inequities determine the disparate health experiences of rich and poor, Black and white, men and women, immigrant and native-born, boss and worker, Indigenous and settler. This book underscores that powerful people and institutions have always seen some lives as more valuable than others, and it emphasizes how those who have been most affected by the disparities in rates of disease and death have challenged and changed these systems. Ultimately, this history shows that unequal outcomes are a choice--and we can instead collectively make decisions that foster life and health.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Rosner is the Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and professor of history in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University and the director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at the Mailman School. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGerald Markowitz is distinguished professor of history at John Jay College. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether, they have written many books, including \u003ci\u003eDeadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America\u003c\/i\u003e (1991) and\u003ci\u003e Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children\u003c\/i\u003e (2014). They are both elected members of the National Academy of Science's National Academy of Medicine.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50875337015570,"sku":"9780231200851","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/building-the-worlds-that-kill-us-disease-death-and-inequality-in-american-history-9780231200851","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}