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Black and blue the origins and consequences of medical racism

Title
Black and blue [electronic resource] : the origins and consequences of medical racism / John Hoberman.
ISBN
9780520248908 (hardback)
9780520274013 (pbk.)
9780520951846 (e-book)
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
Physical Description
x, 293 p.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of black people and do not address the racially motivated thinking and behaviors of physicians practicing medicine today. Black & Blue penetrates the physician's private sphere where racial fantasies and misinformation distort diagnoses and treatments. Doctors have always absorbed the racial stereotypes and folkloric beliefs about racial differences that permeate the general population. Within the world of medicine this racial folklore has infiltrated all of the medical sub-disciplines, from cardiology to gynecology to psychiatry. Doctors have thus imposed white or black racial identities upon every organ system of the human body, along with racial interpretations of black children, the black elderly, the black athlete, black musicality, black pain thresholds, and other aspects of black minds and bodies. The American medical establishment does not readily absorb either historical or current information about medical racism. For this reason, racial enlightenment will not reach medical schools until the current race-aversive curricula include the historical and sociological perspectives presented in this book"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 02, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also listed under
ebrary, Inc.
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