Abstract
Abstract This chapter discusses the relationship between race and health law. Health law is a wide-ranging category that includes public health law and healthcare law. Both healthcare law and public health law have implications for race, particularly racial formation, racial inequality, and racial justice. To illustrate the relationship between race and health disparities, this chapter begins by considering the disproportionately high mortality rates of infants and mothers of color. It then examines the role of public health law in racial formation; investigates health law in the context of segregation and the expansion of civil rights; and analyzes the interplay between health insurance and racial equity. The chapter concludes by highlighting current challenges in both healthcare law and public health law, including physician and patient interpersonal discrimination, and structural inequality.
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