Seeing patients : unconscious bias in health care / Augustus A. White III, with David Chanoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Augustus A., III, 1936-

Contributor:

Chanoff, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American surgeons--Biography.

African American surgeons.

Discrimination in medical care.

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

Medical education.

White, Augustus A., III, 1936-.

White, Augustus A.

Physical Description:

x, 335 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If you're going to have a heart attack, an organ transplant, or a joint replacement, here's the key to getting the very best medical care: be a white, straight, middle-class male. This book by a pioneering black surgeon takes on one of the few critically important topics that haven't figured in the heated debate over health care reform-the largely hidden yet massive injustice of bias in medical treatment.Growing up in Jim Crow-era Tennessee and training and teaching in overwhelmingly white medical institutions, Gus White witnessed firsthand how prejudice works in the world of medicine. And while race relations have changed dramatically, old ways of thinking die hard. In Seeing Patients White draws upon his experience in startlingly different worlds to make sense of the unconscious bias that riddles medical treatment, and to explore what it means for health care in a diverse twenty-first-century America.White and coauthor David Chanoff use extensive research and interviews with leading physicians to show how subconscious stereotyping influences doctor-patient interactions, diagnosis, and treatment. Their book brings together insights from the worlds of social psychology, neuroscience, and clinical practice to define the issues clearly and, most importantly, to outline a concrete approach to fixing this fundamental inequity in the delivery of health care.

Contents:

It takes a village: Memphis

Scrub nurse

Becoming a doctor: Stanford

Becoming a surgeon: Yale

Combat surgeon: death and our common humanity

Getting toward equal: Sweden

A man ain't nothin' but a man

Orthopedic chief: Harvard

Diagnosis and treatment: the subconscious at work

Health-care disparities: race

Health-care disparities: women, Hispanics, elderly, gay

Culturally competent care.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674058774

0674058771

OCLC:

726742563