Seeing Patients Unconscious Bias in Health Care

Name: Seeing Patients Unconscious Bias in Health Care
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ISBN: 9780674049055

ISBN-10: 0674049055

ISBN-13: 9780674049055

Edition: 2011

Authors: Augustus A. White, David Chanoff

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Although there has been much debate about reform of the U.S. healthcare system, this book finds a neglected area of concern: the role played by bias in the provision of medical treatment. Surgeon, Augustus White, highlights how race, sexuality & class all seem to have a bearing on how sick people are treated.

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/15/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 276
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

Augustus A. White III, M.D., is Professor of Medical Education and Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the first African American department chief at Harvard's teaching hospitals.



Preface


Introduction: My Fellow Humans



It Takes a Village: Memphis



Scrub Nurse



Becoming a Doctor: Stanford



Becoming a Surgeon: Yale



Combat Surgeon: Death and Our Common Humanity



Getting toward Equal: Sweden



A Man Ain't Nothin' but a Man



Orthopedic Chief: Harvard



Diagnosis and Treatment: The Subconscious at Work



Health-Care Disparities: Race



Health-Care Disparities: Women, Hispanics, Elderly, Gay



Culturally Competent Care


Epilogue


Some Practical Suggestions for Patients and Physicians


National Standards on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index