02877nam a2200373 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020002900112020002500141020002700166040002100193035002100214043001200235050002600247082002300273100004500296245011000341260005600451300001400507504005100521520140500572533015201977650005102129650004502180650003702225650005002262655002902312710001702341856012602358999001902484ebr10537971CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||111130s2012    cau     sb    001 0 eng d  z  2011045598  z9780520248908 (hardback)  z9780520274013 (pbk.)  z9780520951846 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)787844698  an-us---14aRA563.M56bH63 2012eb04a362.1089/960732231 aHoberman, John M.q(John Milton),d1944-10aBlack and blueh[electronic resource] :bthe origins and consequences of medical racism /cJohn Hoberman.  aBerkeley :bUniversity of California Press,cc2012.  ax, 293 p.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  a"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"--cProvided by publisher.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aDiscrimination in medical carezUnited States. 0aMinoritiesxMedical carezUnited States. 0aAfrican AmericansxMedical care. 0aHealth services accessibilityzUnited States. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10537971zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c245699d245699