[마이리뷰] Bad Blood

Bad Blood (Paperback)
James H. Jones / Free Pr / 1992년 12월

Resistance to lay control was the cornerstone of medicine.
If professional status meant anything to American physicians,
it was the right to set the standards and define the terms ofmedical education, licensing, and practice-in short, they hadconstructed a monopoly that left them as the sole arbiters ofmedical affairs. And while the profession was hardly mono-lithic, it was remarkably homogeneous. There was little dangerthat the values and attitudes of physicians would be testedagainst those of the larger society. - P95

[마이리뷰] Bad Blood

Bad Blood (Paperback)
James H. Jones / Free Pr / 1992년 12월

They give you shots, but I think they ought to give yousomething to eat." - P85

[마이리뷰] Bad Blood

Bad Blood (Paperback)
James H. Jones / Free Pr / 1992년 12월

Public health officials announced that they had come to testpeople for "bad blood." No doubt they had the best of intentionsin using this language. By referring to "bad blood," healthofficers must have thought that they were speaking the ruralblack argot. But certain phrases have a generic quality. "Badblood" meant different things to different people among ruralblacks, and usually more than one thing to all of them. It wasa catchall phrase that referred to many different ailments. - P71

[마이리뷰] Bad Blood

Bad Blood (Paperback)
James H. Jones / Free Pr / 1992년 12월

The real responsibility for the blacks‘
educational plight lay with Alabama‘s poverty, which keptstate appropriations for education well below the national av-erage, and racial discrimination, which kept blacks segregatedin inferior schools that received far less support per studentthan white schools. - P63

[마이리뷰] Bad Blood

Bad Blood (Paperback)
James H. Jones / Free Pr / 1992년 12월

Salt pork, hominy grits, cornbread, andmolasses formed the standard fare of the majority of MaconCounty‘s black residents, while red meat, fresh vegetables andfruit, or milk (even for families with infants) seldom appearedon their tables. As a result, chronic malnutrition and a host ofdiet-related illnesses were serious health problems. - P62