Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2012-04-03
Publisher: University of California Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0520274016
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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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, b Download Black and Blue for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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