Black and blue [electronic resource] : the origins and consequences of medical racism / John Hoberman.
2012
RA563.M56 H63 2012eb
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Black and blue [electronic resource] : the origins and consequences of medical racism / John Hoberman.
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9780520951846 (electronic bk.)
0520951840 (electronic bk.)
9780520248908
0520248902
0520951840 (electronic bk.)
9780520248908
0520248902
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
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English
Description
1 online resource (x, 293 p.)
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RA563.M56 H63 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.1089/96073
Summary
"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 & 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.
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Table of Contents
The nature of medical racism: the origins and consequences of medical racism
Black patients and white doctors
Medical consequences of racializing the human organism
Medical apartheid, internal colonialism and the task of American psychiatry
A medical school syllabus on race.
Black patients and white doctors
Medical consequences of racializing the human organism
Medical apartheid, internal colonialism and the task of American psychiatry
A medical school syllabus on race.