David Barton Smith offers a complete chronicle of racial segregation and discrimination in health care in the United States using vivid firsthand accounts as well as a formal review of the current evidence of inequity in patterns of use and outcomes. Smith details the efforts through the courtsand federal regulation to address these disparities, discusses their persistence in more subtle forms, and offers possible strategies for ending them.Health Care Divided: Race and Healing a Nation te...

“Do we want to perpetuate a Jim Crow health system?” A brilliant, idealistic physician named Jean Cowsert asked that question in Alabama in 1966. Her answer was no—and soon after, she died under suspicious circumstances. Unearthing the truth of Cowsert’s life and death is a central concern of David Barton Smith’s Malicious Intent. Unearthing the grim history of our health care system is another.Race-related disparities in American death rates, exacerbated once again by the...

Finally, after 58 years The Body on Mount Royal is back in print, starring hard-drinking private dick, Russell Teed.From the back cover of the 1953 edition:Take a brutally beaten body, a lonely spot on Montreal's famous mountain, and a buxum brunette whose embrace brings treachery. Add a large dose of vicious gang warfare and a slice of underworld life. Mix these ingredients well and you have a large helping of spicy, fast-paced adventure.An excerpt from the...