Contents
Foreword by Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot
Preface: One Street, Two Worlds
Part 1: American Roulette
Chapter 1: American Roulette
Chapter 2: Structural Violence and the Death Gap
Chapter 3: Location, Location, Location
Chapter 4: Perception Is Reality
Chapter 5: The Three Bs: Beliefs, Behavior, Biology
Part 2: Trapped by Inequity
Chapter 6: Fire and Rain: Life and Death in Natural Disasters
Chapter 7: Mass Incarceration, Premature Death, and Community Health
Chapter 8: Immigration Status and Health Inequality: The Case of Transplant
Part 3: Health Care Inequality
Chapter 9: The US Health Care System: Separate and Unequal
Chapter 10: The Poison Pill: Health Insurance in America
Part 4: The Cure
Chapter 11: Community Efficacy and the Death Gap
Chapter 12: Community Activism against Structural Violence
Chapter 13: Observe, Judge, Act
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index