The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills

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 ...