{"product_id":"medicine-by-the-people-jim-downs-9781324086604","title":"Medicine by the People: How Ordinary People Changed American Healthcare","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost histories of medicine center doctors: the standard-bearers of expertise and innovation. Yet these narratives underplay the role that ordinary people have, and always have had, on medicine and public health.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn colonial America, Black people's knowledge led to smallpox inoculations, stymying that epidemic. Midwives, more plentiful than doctors, also delivered babies more successfully. The Black community of the early 1900s educated the public on preventing tuberculosis. In the last half of the twentieth century, the Young Lords fought for better sanitation and increased medical infrastructure in their East Harlem neighborhood and queer people pushed the federal government for HIV\/AIDS research with their activism. Grassroots community care has always been at the cutting edge of medicine, a hidden tradition of meeting need with dignity. \u003cem\u003eMedicine by the People\u003c\/em\u003e reveals that the history of American healthcare is, at its heart, a struggle over who gets to tell the story of illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jim Downs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1324086602\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324086604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Jim Downs","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48799014027519,"sku":"9781324086604","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/medicine-by-the-people-jim-downs-9781324086604","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}