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Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

Geronimus, Arline T.

Paperback

Medical ReferencePublic HealthGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 0316258075
ISBN13: 9780316258074
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
Published: Jan 23 2024
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people.

Monumental. --Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning

America has woken up to what many of its citizens have known for centuries and to what public health statistics have evidenced for decades: systemic injustice takes a physical, too often deadly, toll on Black, brown, working class and poor communities, and any group who experiences systemic cultural oppression or economic exploitation. Marginalized Americans are disproportionately more likely to suffer from chronic diseases and to die at much younger ages than their middle- and upper-class white counterparts. Black mothers die during childbirth at a rate three times higher than white mothers. White kids in high-poverty Appalachian regions have a healthy life expectancy of 50 years old, while the vast majority of US youth can expect to both survive and be able-bodied at 50, with decades of healthy life expectancy ahead of them. In the face of such clear inequity, we must ask ourselves why this is, and what we can we do.

Dr. Arline T. Geronimus coined the term weathering to describe the effects of systemic oppression--including racism and classism--on the body. In Weathering, based on more than 30 years of research, she argues that health and aging have more to do with how society treats us than how well we take care of ourselves. She explains what happens to human bodies as they attempt to withstand and overcome the challenges and insults that society leverages at them, and details how this process ravages their health. And she proposes solutions.

Until now, there has been little discussion about the insidious effects of social injustice on the body. Weathering shifts the paradigm, shining a light on the topic and offering a roadmap for hope.

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