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Race, Medicine, and Health Care

by | Mar 22, 2021 | 1619 Project

Books

The unapologetic guide to Black mental health : navigate an unequal system, learn tools for emotional wellness, and get the help you deserve, by Rheeda Walker

Out in the rural : a Mississippi health center and its war on poverty, by Thomas J. Ward, Jr.

The black woman’s breast cancer survival guide : understanding and healing in the face of a nationwide crisis, by Cheryl D. Holloway

High blood pressure : the black man and woman’s guide to living with hypertension, by James R. Reed and Hilton M. Hudson

Managing cancer : the African American’s guide to prevention, diagnosis and treatment, by George Rawls, Frank P. Lloyd, and Herbert Stern

Uncertain suffering : racial health care disparities and sickle cell disease, by Carolyn Moxley Rouse

Killing the black body : race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty, by Dorothy E. Roberts

Medical apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present, by Harriet A. Washington

Black man in a white coat : a doctor’s reflections on race and medicine, by Damon Tweedy

Black fatigue : how racism erodes the mind, body, and spirit, by Mary-Frances Winters

Articles

Unequal treatment: confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health careJournal of the National Medical Association, 2002
A Systematic Review of the Impact of Physician Implicit Racial Bias on Clinical Decision Making, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 2016.
Vaccine Hesitancy, KFF Covid-19 Vaccine Monitor, 2021
Risk for COVID-19 Infection, Hospitalization, and Death By Race/Ethnicity, CDC, 2019
Study: Black Americans, women, conservatives more hesitant to trust COVID-19 vaccine, Social Science & Medicine, January 2021
Harvard School of Public Health Race and Health resources