Description: The story of America's health care failure, told through the life and suspicious death of doctor Jean Cowsert
Brief description: David Barton Smith, Professor Emeritus in Health Administration at Temple University, is the author of Reinventing Care: Assisted Living in New York City (also published by Vanderbilt University Press) and Health Care Divided: Race and Healing a Nation. He is assisting in the production of a companion documentary supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Review Quotes: "David Barton Smith sees health care reform as having been stifled by racism, and in that sense Dr. Cowsert's death serves as a metaphor--a way to humanize and personalize the struggles and costs of health reform."
--Keith Wailoo, author of How Cancer Crossed the Color Line