Minority Health and Health Equity Archive
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Item Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?(2007) Adelman, LarryUnnatural Causes, a documentary series scheduled for release this fall, will present for the first time on American television an investigation of the sources of our huge and alarming socioeconomic and racial disparities in health. The seven-part, 4-hour documentary series will be available on DVD from California Newsreel (www.newsreel.org ) and will be broadcast in the United States by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) during the first half of 2008. The video clip linked on this page offers a "sneak peek" at the series' opening episode.Item RACE AND GENE STUDIES: What Difference Makes a Difference?(2004) Adelman, LarryIn 1851 the Louisiana physician Dr. Samuel Cartwright observed a behavior evident in African Americans but absent in whites. They tended to run away from slave plantations. He attributed this odd affliction to a disease peculiar to Negroes. He even gave it a name, “drapetomania.”