Black and blue (Record no. 245297)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 02877nam a2200373 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 362.1089/96073 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Hoberman, John M. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Black and blue |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Berkeley : |
| Name of publisher | University of California Press, |
| Year of publication | c2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | x, 293 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "Black & 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"-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Discrimination in medical care |
| Topical Term | Minorities |
| Topical Term | African Americans |
| Topical Term | Health services accessibility |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10537971 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| -- | Provided by publisher. |
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