Toward a Historically Informed Analysis of Racial Health Disparities Since 1619

Evelynn M Hammonds1, Susan M Reverby1

  • 1Evelynn M. Hammonds is with the Department of the History of Science and the Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Susan M. Reverby is with the Women's and Gender Studies Department, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.

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