How Discrimination & Poverty Can Make You Sick
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Public health professor Arline Geronimus explains how marginalized people suffer nearly constant stress, which damages their bodies at the cellular level. Her new book is Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society.Also Maureen Corrigan reviews Biography of X by Catherine Lacey.
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