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Just medicine : a cure for racial inequality in American health care / Dayna Bowen Matthew.
Author
Matthew, Dayna Bowen
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : New York University Press, [2015]
©2015
Description
xii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Minorities
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Medical care
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United States
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Medical policy
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United States
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Health and race
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Summary note
"Over 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities, the unfair, unjust, and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial and ethnic minorities and care provided to whites. Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system--and in Just Medicine, Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients. Implicit bias is the single most important determinant of health and health care disparities. Because we have missed this fact, the money we spend on training providers to become culturally competent, expanding wellness education programs and community health centers, and even expanding access to health insurance will have only a modest effect on reducing health disparities. We will continue to utterly fail in the effort to eradicate health disparities unless we enact strong, evidence-based legal remedies that accurately address implicit and unintentional forms of discrimination, to replace the weak, tepid, and largely irrelevant legal remedies currently available. Our continued failure to fashion an effective response that purges the effects of implicit bias from American health care, Matthew argues, is unjust and morally untenable. In this book, she unites medical, neuroscience, psychology, and sociology research on implicit bias and health disparities with her own expertise in civil rights and constitutional law. Just Medicine offers us a new, effective, and innovative plan to regulate implicit biases and eliminate the inequalities they cause, and to save the lives they endanger." -- Publisher's description
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: the new normal
Bad law makes bad health
Implicit bias and health disparities
Physicians' unconscious racism
From impressions to inequity: connecting the empirical dots
Implicit bias during the clinical encounter
Implicit bias beyond the clinical encounter
From inequity to intervention: what can be done about implicit bias
A structural solution
A new normal: the restoration of Title VI
Conclusion: beyond Title VI.
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ISBN
9781479896738 ((cl : : alk. paper))
147989673X ((cl : : alk. paper))
LCCN
2015017158
OCLC
906010866
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