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Privilege in the medical academy : a feminist examines gender, race, and power / Delese Wear ; foreword by Frances K. Conley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wear, Delese.
- Series:
- Athene series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical education--Philosophy.
- Medical education.
- Sexism in medicine.
- Feminist criticism.
- Feminist theory.
- Women in medicine.
- Literature and medicine--Study and teaching.
- Literature and medicine.
- Professional socialization.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 130 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Teachers College Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- Examines the training of our physicians and shows us how "scientific objectivity" reinforces cultural biases based on gender, race, class, and sexual orientation. But, Wear argues, when wise teachers use literature and art to decode the scripts of traditional medical education, doctors can learn to bring into their practices the healing values of imagination, empathy, and social justice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-122) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807762903
- 0807762881
- OCLC:
- 36647880
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