Antiracism Book Club

Selected Materials for Social Justice and Medicine (September 18, 2020)

Black Children Are More Likely to Die After Surgery Than White Peers, Study Shows
Gross, J. (2020, July 20). Black Children Are More Likely to Die After Surgery Than White Peers, Study Shows. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/health/black-children-surgery-deaths.html
For Contact Tracing to Work, Public Health Authorities Must Regain the Trust of Black Communities
Esmonde, K. (2020, 23 June). For Contact Tracing to Work, Public Health Authorities Must Regain the Trust of Black Communities. Vox. https://www.vox.com/first-person/2020/6/23/21299241/contact-tracing-covid-distrust-black-americans
How medical bias against black people is shaping Covid-19 treatment and care
Mtshali, M. T. (2020, June 2). How medical bias against black people is shaping Covid-19 treatment and care. Vox. https://www.vox.com/2020/6/2/21277987/coronavirus-in-black-people-covid-19-testing-treatment-medical-racism
Medicine's Unrelenting Race Gap
Hamblin, J. (2014, December 10). Medicine's unrelenting race gap. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/12/the-race-problem-in-medicine-race/383613/

TEDMed. (2015). Mary Bassett: Why Your Doctor Should Care About Social Justice. [Video]. https://www.ted.com/talks/mary_bassett_why_your_doctor_should_care_about_social_justice

For Harriet. (2017, 30 December). Black Americans are Living on Borrowed Time. [Video] YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nfjs1Ty-G4

TED. (2015, 17 February). Nadine Burke Harris: How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime. [Video] YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ovIJ3dsNk&t=89s