looks at this issue. it s not just about can you afford to get to a doctor or do you have health insurance, but it s also about the metabolic processes that happen when we are under stress and particularly socioeconomic stress and the stress of status stress because we live in a society where we internalize the feeling of being inferior, where poverty creates levels of stress that literally hurt people s hearts. right? you have heart disease that comes from a hardening of the arteries that is linked to stress, not just from diet or other kind of external factors. that s where i wanted to connect these two pieces, doctor. you talk about sort of getting the right kinds of foods and the right sorts of exercise, which we know there s racial strati stratification on that because of residential segregation. but the other work of sherman jackson and others around john henryism and the idea that the stresses, particularly the african-american men experience as a result of inequality actually
collapsed and crashed to the ground. he died from a heart attack. he lives on in the field of cardiology where the term john henryism is used to describe health despairties for black men. men driven to push their bodies to circumstances beyond their control and suck coming to the forces coming against them. here with me at the table, ann, assistant professor at georgia tech and author of medicating race. founder of the harold p. freeman institute and ralph lauren center for cancer care and prevention. alandra a professor of columbia university and author of body and soul. you remember from yesterday, dr. jonathan, professor of psychiatry and author of the protest psychosis.