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The Medicalization of Poverty in the Lives of Low-Income Black Mothers and Children.
J Law Med Ethics
September 2018
Ruby Mendenhall, Ph.D., M.P.P., is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Assistant Dean, Diversity and Democratization of Health Innovation at Carle Illinois College of Medicine.
Scholars are beginning to use the concept medicalization of poverty to theorize how the United States spends large amounts of money on illnesses related to poverty but invests much less in preventing these illnesses and the conditions that create them (e.g., economic insecurity, housing instability, continuous exposure to violence, and racism).
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