Health Colonialism

Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers

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Shiloh Krupar

Health Colonialism considers how U.S. urban development policies contribute to the uneven and unjust distribution of health care in this country. Here, Shiloh Krupar investigates the racially inequitable effects of elite U.S. hospitals on their surrounding neighborhoods and their role in consolidating frontiers of land primed for redevelopment.

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    Portions of chapter 1 were previously published in a different form in “Brownfields as Waste/Race Governance: U.S. Contaminated Property Redevelopment and Racial Capitalism,” in The Routledge Handbook of Waste Studies, edited by Zsuzsa Gille and Josh Lepawsky, 238–53 (London: Routledge, 2022); copyright 2022 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC, a division of Informa plc; reproduced by permission. A modified section of chapter 1 also appears in “Brownfields as Climate Colonialism: Land Reuse and Development Divides,” in The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space, and Politics, Volume 1, edited by Nikolina Bobic and Farzaneh Haghighi, 446–62 (London: Routledge, 2022); copyright 2022 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC, a division of Informa plc; reproduced by permission.

    Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers by Shiloh Krupar is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.