Health Colonialism

Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers

Shiloh Krupar

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University of Minnesota Press
04 July 2023

Urban communities; Medicolegal issues; Urban & municipal planning

Series: Forerunners: Ideas First

The role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheid

Health Colonialism considers how U.S. urban development policies contribute to the uneven and unjust distribution of health care in this country. Here, Shiloh Krupar investigates the racially inequitable effects of elite U.S. hospitals on their surrounding neighborhoods and their role in consolidating frontiers of land primed for redevelopment.

Naming this frontier “medical brownfields,” Krupar shows how hospitals leverage their domestic real estate empires to underwrite international prospecting for patients and overseas services and specialty clinics. Her pointed analysis reveals that decolonizing health care efforts must scrutinize the land practices of nonprofit medical institutions and the liberal foundations of medical apartheid perpetuated by globalizing American health care.

By: Shiloh Krupar
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 113g
ISBN: 9781517915421
ISBN 10: 1517915422
Series: Forerunners: Ideas First
Pages: 110
Publication Date: 04 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Shiloh Krupar is a geographer and Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor in the Culture and Politics Program at Georgetown University. She is author of Hot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste and coauthor of Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-Making (both from Minnesota). Krupar coedited A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado and codirected the National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service.