Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers (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. Cover Half Title Page Series List Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction 1. Urban Brownfields and Health Policy 2. Hospital Growth Machines and Colonizing Brownfields 3. Global Medical Entrepôts and U.S. Health Care Inequality Conclusion: Decolonizing Health About the Author