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Racial Justice Resources: Healthcare Injustice

Ebooks @ UW Libraries

book cover: The Death Gap : How Inequality Kills

book: Just Health : Treating Structural Racism to Heal America

book: The Unequal Pandemic : COVID-19 and Health Inequalities.

Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools

book: Sickening : Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States

book cover: Caring for Equality: A History of African American Health and Healthcare

book cover: Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America

book cover: The Racial Divide in American Medicine: Black Physicians and the Struggle for Justice in Health Care

book cover: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation

book cover: Deluxe Jim Crow: Civil Rights and American Health Policy, 1935-1954

book cover: Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism

book cover: Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired : Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950

book cover: Inequalities and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities Create Sickness

Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation

book cover: Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination

book cover: Black LGBT Health in the United States : The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation

book cover: Medicating Race : Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference

book cover: Medicalizing Blackness : Making Racial Differences in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840

book cover: Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care

book cover: Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine

book cover: Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation

book cover: Health in the City : Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women's Health in New York City, 1915-1930

book cover: Affirmative Action in Medicine: Improving Health Care for Everyone

book cover: Vitality Politics : Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation

book cover: Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy

book cover: Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

book cover: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

book cover: Mapping

book cover: Invisible Visits: Black Middle-Class Women in the American Healthcare System

book cover: The Morehouse Model: How One School of Medicine Revolutionized Community Engagement and Health Equity

book cover: Patient-Centered Clinical Care for African Americans: A Concise, Evidence-Based Guide to Important Differences and Better Outcomes

book cover: Reproductive Injustice : Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth

book cover: Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation

book cover: Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation

book cover: Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization

book cover: Black Fatigue : How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit

book: Unequal Cities : Structural Racism and the Death Gap in America's Largest Cities

Medical Racism: Current Editorials, Articles & Essays

Articles are in reverse chronological order. Use our newspaper databases, Access World News and US Newsstream, to find additional news articles.

Selected Academic Articles @ UW Libraries

Bhandari, Sanjay, et al. "Elderly African Americans: The Vulnerable of the Vulnerable in the COVID‐19 Era." Aging Medicine, vol. 3, no. 4, 2020, pp. 234-236.
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Chaturvedi, Rahul, and Gabriel, Rodney A. “COVID-19 Healthcare Delivery Impact on African Americans.” Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness., 2020, pp. 1–8.
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Cunningham, George B., and Lisa T. Wigfall. "Race, Explicit Racial Attitudes, Implicit Racial Attitudes, and COVID-19 Cases and Deaths: An Analysis of Counties in the United States." PLoS One, vol. 15, no. 11, 2020.
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Dalsania, Ankur K., et al. “The Relationship Between Social Determinants of Health and Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality.” Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities., Springer International Publishing, 2021.
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Elias, Amanuel, and Paradies, Yin. “The Costs of Institutional Racism and Its Ethical Implications for Healthcare.” Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, vol. 18, no. 1, 2021, pp. 45–58.
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Entress, Rebecca M, and Anderson, Kim M. “The Politics of Health Care: Health Disparities, the Affordable Care Act, and Solutions for Success.” Social Work in Public Health., vol. 35, no. 4, 2020, pp. 152–162.
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Fitzgerald, Chloe, and Samia Hurst. “Implicit Bias in Healthcare Professionals: a Systematic Review.” BMC Medical Ethics, vol. 18, no. 1, 2017, p. 19.
Ford, Chandra L. and Airhihenbuwa, Collins O. "Critical Race Theory, Race Equity, and Public Health: Toward Antiracism Praxis." American Journal of Public Health, vol. 100, suppl. 1, 2011, pp. S30-S35.
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Garcia, Moctezuma. “This Is America: Systemic Racism and Health Inequities Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Social Work in Public Health., vol. 37, no. 2, 2022, pp. 105–21.
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Hall, William J., et al. “Implicit Racial/Ethnic Bias Among Health Care Professionals and Its Influence on Health Care Outcomes: A Systematic Review”, American Journal of Public Health 105, no. 12 (December 1, 2015): pp. e60-e76.
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Hamed, Sarah, et al. “Racism in Healthcare: a Scoping Review.” BMC Public Health., vol. 22, no. 1, BioMed Central, 2022.
Howell, E. A., et al. "Black-White Differences in Severe Maternal Morbidity and Site of Care." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, vol. 214, no.1, 2016, pp. 122.e1-122.e7.
Laurencin, Cato T, and Aneesah Mcclinton. “The COVID-19 Pandemic: a Call to Action to Identify and Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities.” Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, vol. 7, no. 3, 2020, pp. 398–402.
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Marrett, Cora B. “Racial Disparities and COVID-19: The Social Context.” Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities., vol. 8, no. 3, Springer International Publishing, 2021, pp. 794–97.
McGowan, Samuel K., et al. “Racial Disparities in ICU Outcomes: A Systematic Review.” Critical Care Medicine., vol. 50, no. 1, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2022, pp. 1–20.
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Millett, Gregorio A, et al. “Assessing Differential Impacts of COVID-19 on Black Communities.” Annals of Epidemiology, 2020, [preprint]
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Molina, Melanie F, et al. “Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Microaggressions in Medicine.” Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2020, Annals of emergency medicine, (available online 4/23/2020).
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Nafiu, Olubukola O., et al. "Race, Postoperative Complications, and Death in Apparently Healthy Children." Pediatrics, July 2020.
Parsons, Sharon. “Addressing Racial Biases in Medicine: A Review of the Literature, Critique, and Recommendations.” International Journal of Health Services., vol. 50, no. 4, 2020, pp. 371–386.
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Racism in Medicine (issue focused on race and health), BMJ, vol. 368, iss. 8233, 2020.
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Tan, Shin Bin, et al. “Structural Racism and COVID-19 in the USA: a County-Level Empirical Analysis.” Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities., vol. 9, no. 1, Springer International Publishing, 2022, pp. 236–46
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Trent, Maria, et al. “The Impact of Racism on Child and Adolescent Health.” Pediatrics., vol. 144, no. 2, 2019, pp. Pediatrics. , 2019, Vol.144(2).
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Unaka, Ndidi I and Reynolds, Kimberly L., "Truth in Tension: Reflections on Racism in Medicine." Journal of Hospital Medicine, Published Online First June 25, 2020.
Vaughan, Laura, et al. "Relationship of Socio-Demographics, Comorbidities, Symptoms and Healthcare Access with Early COVID-19 Presentation and Disease Severity." BMC Infectious Diseases, vol. 21, 2021, pp. 1-10.
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Vyas, Darhsali A. et al., "Hidden in Plain Sight — Reconsidering the Use of Race Correction in Clinical Algorithms." New England Journal of Medicine, 6/17/2020
Wallace, Maeve, et al. “Separate and Unequal: Structural Racism and Infant Mortality in the US.” Health and Place, vol. 45, 2017, pp. 140–144.
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Williams, David R., et al. “Racism and Health: Evidence and Needed Research.” Annual Review of Public Health. Vol. 40, no. 1, 2019, pp. 105–125.
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Zalla, Lauren C, et al. “A Geography of Risk: Structural Racism and COVID-19 Mortality in the United States.” American Journal of Epidemiology, 2021, pp. American journal of epidemiology, 2021–03-12.

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