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David Himmelstein

David Himmelstein is a physician and Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York’s Hunter College.

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WE’RE MOVING BACKWARD

How Is the Race Gap in Health Care Getting Worse?

A half-century since the public learned of the U.S. government’s barbaric treatment of Black men with syphilis, racial disparities in medicine remain alarmingly pronounced.

Steffie Woolhandler

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