Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care

by Augustus A. White III

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If you're going to have a heart attack, an organ transplant, or a joint replacement, here's the key to getting the very best medical care: be a white, straight, middle-class male. This book by a pioneering black surgeon takes on one of the few critically important topics that haven't figured in the heated debate over health care reform--the largely hidden yet massive injustice of bias in medical treatment.

Growing up in Jim Crow-era Tennessee...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674049055

ISBN13:9780674049055

Release Date:January 2011

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.2" x 9.8"

Related Subjects

Administration & Medicine Economics Administration & Policy African-American & Black Clinical Discrimination & Racism Doctor-Patient Relations Education & Training Ethnic & National Health Care Delivery Medical

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