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Taiwo, O. O., Fehrenbacher, A. E., & Cooke, A. (2021). Material Insecurity, Racial Capitalism, and Public Health. The Hastings Center report, 51(6), 17–22. Added by: Prashanth NS (08/06/2023, 22:00) |
Resource type: Journal Article DOI: 10.1002/hast.1293 ID no. (ISBN etc.): 1552-146X BibTeX citation key: Taiwo2021 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: Health Keywords: bioethics, Capitalism*, casteism, class, corona capitalism, Covid-19, Female, fundamental cause theory, Humans, material insecurity, Michigan, Politics, Public health, Public Health*, race, racial capitalism, Racial Groups, racism, United States Creators: Cooke, Fehrenbacher, Taiwo Collection: The Hastings Center report |
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Abstract |
In the influential 1995 article "Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Disease," Bruce Link and Jo Phelan described social and political factors as "fundamental causes" of death and disease. Whitney Pirtle has recently declared racial capitalism another such fundamental cause. Using the case of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, she has argued that racial capitalism's role in that situation meets each of the criteria Link and Phelan's article outlines: racial capitalism influenced multiple disease outcomes, affected disease outcomes through multiple risk factors, involved access to flexible resources that can be used to minimize both risks and the consequences of disease, and was reproduced over time through the continual replacement of intervening mechanisms. We argue for Pirtle's conclusion using the extensive literature on racial capitalism and case studies concerning housing in the United States and Brazil and what Naomi Klein has termed "corona capitalism" in India. If races correspond to hierarchies of material security, as suggested by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, then these hierarchies and their causal effects are fundamental determinants of public health. (© 2021 The Hastings Center.)
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Place: United States Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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