
The Death Gap
How Inequality Kills
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Narrated by:
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Peter Berkrot
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By:
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David A. Ansell
The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban Blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans. David Ansell has spent nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, and has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics.
In The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of these realities, drawn from observations and stories of his patients. While the contrasts and disparities among Chicago's communities are particularly stark, the death gap is truly a nationwide epidemic - as Ansell shows, there is a 35-year difference in life expectancy between the healthiest and wealthiest and the poorest and sickest American neighborhoods.
If you are poor, where you live in America can dictate when you die. It doesn't need to be this way; such divisions are not inevitable. Ansell calls out the social and cultural arguments that have been raised as ways of explaining or excusing these gaps, and he lays bare the structural violence that is really to blame.
The Death Gap outlines a vision that will provide the foundation for a healthier nation - for all.
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Exceptional,
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my eyes and heart are open...thank you book!
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Data-driven explanation for structural inequality
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Important book, ruined by narrator's voice
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Good topic
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While the book starts off a little clunky, I suspect part of this is the author presenting large ideas, I think some of this is also on account of the author’s familiarity with topics outside of health (understandable, author is a doctor). However, the biggest issue with this book is the choice of narrator. I checked the narrator’s, which includes Unsolved Mysteries. There’s a certain sense of condescension in his voice. Listening to the audiobook, you get sense that the author looks down on his audience, but it really seems that this perception is caused by the narrator reading the book like a murder mystery. Whenever he pronounces “death gap” or “black” it always comes across with a tone of righteous anger, that is a pure turnoff.
Nonetheless, the content of this book is good and everyone should read it, it makes one of the strongest cases for healthcare as a right, which is becoming a stronger rallying cry as 2020 approaches.
Good book, bad narration
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