Black and blue : the origins and consequences of medical racism
(Book - Regular Print)
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Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012].
Physical Desc
x, 293 pages ; 24 cm
Status
Prescott College - CIRCCOLL - Circulating Collection
RA563.M56 H63 2012
1 available
RA563.M56 H63 2012
1 available
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Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012].
Format
Book - Regular Print
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"Black and 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 and 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 new historical and sociological perspectives"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hoberman, J. M. 1. (2012). Black and blue: the origins and consequences of medical racism . University of California Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hoberman, John M. 1944-. 2012. Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism. University of California Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hoberman, John M. 1944-. Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism University of California Press, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hoberman, John M. 1944-. Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism University of California Press, 2012.
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