Multidisciplinary Resources
Anti-Racism Resources for the Health Sciences
- Toward the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine: Transforming Clinical Education, Research, and PracticeThe use of biological race in medicine is an unchallenged, outdated norm throughout clinical education, research, and practice. This paper bridges existing research by critical theory scholar-activists and researchers, and aims to guide clinicians and student learners in medicine, public health, and beyond on why the use of biological race must be abolished in medicine and clinical research, education, and practice.
- Changing How Race Is Portrayed in Medical Education: Recommendations From Medical StudentsThe medical community has been complicit in legitimizing claims of racial difference throughout the history of the United States. Unfortunately, a rigorous examination of the role medicine plays in perpetuating inequity across racial lines is often missing in medical school curricula due to time constraints and other challenges inherent to medical education. This paper proposes recommendations for guiding efforts to mitigate the adverse effects associated with the use of race in medical education.
- Equal Treatment: Health Equity through EducationA medical education non-profit based on the belief that all people deserve access to equal, unbiased care and equal health outcomes. Provides curricular resources and further reading. Site development in progress.
- Journal Articles with Photographs of Visible Diseases and Conditions in People with Skin of Various ColorsFrom Oregon Health Sciences University Library. To access full text of articles through USF, copy the title into Fusion or PubMed.
- The Morehouse Model byISBN: 9781421438047Publication Date: 2020-06-16Among the 154 medical schools in the United States, Morehouse School of Medicine stands out for its formidable success in improving its surrounding communities. Over its history, Morehouse has become known as an institution committed to community engagement with an interest in closing the health equity gap between people of color and the white majority population. Describing the philosophical, cultural, and contextual grounding of the Morehouse Model, they give concrete examples of it in action before explaining how to foster the collaboration between community-based organizations and university faculty that is essential to making this model of care and research work.
- Essentials of Health Justice a Primer byISBN: 9781284152074Publication Date: 2018-04-16Essentials of Health Justice examines the social and structural determinants of health, systems of care for underserved populations, health equity, social justice and health policy. Unlike other texts of its kind, Essentials of Health Justice uniquely focuses on the legal, structural, and justice issues underlying health disparities; the adequacy of current safety net programs and legal protections affecting the health of vulnerable populations; health policy, law and system design focused on achieving health equity; and concrete strategies for bringing about change to promote health justice. Essentials of Health Justice can serve as a stand-alone text or supplement for a range of undergraduate, graduate, law, public health, medical, nursing and other health professions courses.
- The Science of Health Disparities Research byISBN: 9781119374817Publication Date: 2021-03-16The Science of Health Disparities Research is an indispensable source of up-to-date information on clinical and translational health disparities science. Building upon the advances in health disparities research over the past decade, this authoritative volume informs policies and practices addressing the diseases, disorders, and gaps in health outcomes that are more prevalent in minority populations and socially disadvantaged communities. Contributions by recognized scholars and leaders in the field--featuring contemporary research, conceptual models, and a broad range of scientific perspectives--provide an interdisciplinary approach to reducing inequalities in population health, encouraging community engagement in the research process, and promoting social justice.
Biographies and Memoirs of Black Healthcare Practitioners
- Twice As Hard: the stories of Black women who fought to become physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century byCall Number: R153 .B76 2023ISBN: 9780807025086Publication Date: 2023-01-24Black women physicians' stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women's history, and in black history. It's time to set the record straight No real account of black women physicians in the US exists, and what little mention is made of these women in existing histories is often insubstantial or altogether incorrect. In this work of extensive research, Jasmine Brown offers a rich new perspective, penning the long-erased stories of nine pioneering black women physicians beginning in 1860, when a black woman first entered medical school.
- Black Man in a White Coat byISBN: 9781250105042Publication Date: 2016-09-06One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black Americans.
- The Beauty in Breaking byISBN: 9780525537380Publication Date: 2020-07-07Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. The Beauty in Breaking is the poignant true story of Harper's journey toward self-healing.
History of Racism in Healthcare
E-Books
- Medical Bondage byISBN: 9780820354750Publication Date: 2018-07-15The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women.
- Breathing Race into the Machine byISBN: 9780816683574Publication Date: 2014-02-01In Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer, science studies scholar Lundy Braun traces the little-known history of the spirometer to reveal the social and scientific processes by which medical instruments have worked to naturalize racial and ethnic differences, from Victorian Britain to today.
- Medical Apartheid byISBN: 9780767915472Publication Date: 2008-01-08Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge-a tradition that continues today within some black populations.
Racism, Disparities, and Activism in Healthcare and Medicine
E-Books & Online Reports
- Proceedings of the Diversity and Inclusion Innovation Forum: Unconscious Bias in Academic MedicineFrom the American Academy of Medical Colleges. Exploring the role of unconscious bias in seven key areas of academic medicine, this publication is an insightful look into both the understanding of the benefits of diversity and inclusion, as well as a summary of potential interventions to remediate the biases present in modern academic medicine.
- Black Women in White byCall Number: RT83.5 .H56 1989ISBN: 9780253205292Publication Date: 1989-10-01Hine examines the professionalization of black nurses through institutional developments in hospitals, training schools, and nursing organizations. Comparing and contrasting this growth to white counterparts, she explores barriers of race and gender stereotyping.
- Fatal Invention byISBN: 9781595588340Publication Date: 2012-09-04This groundbreaking book by the acclaimed Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of biological concept of race--revived by purportedly cutting-edge science, race-specific drugs, genetic testing, and DNA databases--continues to undermine a just society and promote inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.
- Flatlining byISBN: 9780520300347Publication Date: 2019-07-02What happens to black health care professionals in the new economy, where work is insecure and organizational resources are scarce? In Flatlining, Adia Harvey Wingfield exposes how hospitals, clinics, and other institutions participate in "racial outsourcing," relying heavily on black doctors, nurses, technicians, and physician assistants to do "equity work"--extra labor that makes organizations and their services more accessible to communities of color.
- Body and Soul byISBN: 9780816676491Publication Date: 2013-09-01Drawing on extensive historical research as well as interviews with former members of the Black Panther Party, this text argues that the Black Panther Party's focus on health care was both practical and ideological. The Black Panther Party's understanding of health as a basic human right and its engagement with the social implications of genetics anticipated current debates about the politics of health and race.
- Black and Blue byISBN: 9780520274013Publication Date: 2012-04-03Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients.
- Fearing the Black Body byISBN: 9781479886753Publication Date: 2019-05-07How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years. Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn't about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice.
- Just Medicine byISBN: 9781479851621Publication Date: 2018-07-05Offers an innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in the American health care and save the lives they endanger 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.
Print Books
- Under the Skin byCall Number: RA448.5.N4 V55 2022ISBN: 9780385544887Publication Date: 2022-06-14In 2018, Linda Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America caused an awakening. Hundreds of studies had previously established a link between racial discrimination and the health of Black Americans, with little progress toward solutions. But Villarosa's article exposing that a Black woman with a college education is as likely to die or nearly die in childbirth as a white woman with an eighth grade education made racial disparities in health care impossible to ignore. Now, in Under the Skin, Linda Villarosa lays bare the forces in the American health-care system and in American society that cause Black people to "live sicker and die quicker" compared to their white counterparts.
- Gender, Race, Class and Health byISBN: 9780787976637Publication Date: 2005-12-02Gender, Race, Class, and Health examines relationships between economic structures, race, culture, and gender, and their combined influence on health.
- Subprime Health byISBN: 9781517901509Publication Date: 2017-07-15From race-based pharmaceutical prescriptions and marketing, to race-targeted medical "hot spotting" and the Affordable Care Act, to stem-cell trial recruitment discourse, Subprime Health is a timely examination of race-based medicine as it intersects with the concept of debt.
COVID-19 Disparities and Health Equity
- The COVID Racial Data TrackerA partnership between Atlantic Magazine's COVID Tracking Project and Boston University's Center for Anti-Racist Research (founded by Ibram X. Kendi). Works to provide complete and up-to-date race and ethnicity data on COVID-19 in the United States.
- COVID-19 and Health DisparitiesA collection of articles, podcasts, webinars, and additional resources on health disparities and COVID-19. From Harvard Medical School.
- California Department of Public Health: COVID-19 Race and Ethnicity DataAll Cases and Deaths associated with COVID-19 by Race and Ethnicity.
- COVID-19 - Racial Equity & Social Justice ResourcesReading list compiled by Racial Equity Tools to help communities and activists as they work to understand and respond to the moment and for the long haul.
Racism, Disparities, and Activism in Prenatal Care, Pregnancy, and Parenthood
Resources
- Black Mamas Matter AllianceBlack Mamas Matter Alliance is a Black women-led cross-sectoral alliance. We center Black mamas to advocate, drive research, build power, and shift culture for Black maternal health, rights, and justice.
E-Books
- Birthing Justice byISBN: 9781138191457Publication Date: 2015-12-22In the United States, black women are over three times more likely to perish from pregnancy-related complications than white women; their babies are half as likely to survive the first year. Many black women experience policing, coercion, and disempowerment during pregnancy and childbirth and are disconnected from alternative birthing traditions. This book places black women's voices at the center of the debate on what should be done to fix the broken maternity system and foregrounds black women's agency in the emerging birth justice movement.
- Reproducing Race byISBN: 9780520268951Publication Date: 2011-03-18Reproducing Race, an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, explores the role of race in the medical setting.
- Reproductive Injustice byISBN: 9781479853571Publication Date: 2019-06-25A troubling study of the role that medical racism plays in the lives of black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infants.
- Motherhood So White byISBN: 9781492679011Publication Date: 2019-09-20Nefertiti Austin shares her story of starting a family through adoption as a single Black woman.
Print Books
- We Live for the We byCall Number: HQ755.8 .M414 2019ISBN: 9781568588544Publication Date: 2019-04-02A warm, wise, and urgent guide to parenting in uncertain times, from a longtime reporter on race, reproductive health, and politics In We Live for the We, first-time mother Dani McClain sets out to understand how to raise her daughter in what she, as a black woman, knows to be an unjust--even hostile--society.
- Battling over Birth byCall Number: RG961.C2 O63 2018ISBN: 9781946665119Publication Date: 2017-12-02"Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis reveals hard truths- powerful findings on the role of racism, coercion, inadequate prenatal care, the pressures undermining breastfeeding and the lack of access to alternatives to a broken maternal health-care system as key threads of black women's birth experiences." -Kimberly Seals Allers, MS, author, The Big Letdown
Racism and Disparities in Psychology and Mental Health
E-Books
- The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840-1880 byISBN: 9781469648446Publication Date: 2019-03-18Though the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occurred in the United States only after 1800, just as the struggle to end slavery took hold. In this book, Wendy Gonaver examines the relationship between these two historical developments, showing how slavery and ideas about race shaped early mental health treatment in the United States, especially in the South.
- The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health byISBN: 9781684034147Publication Date: 2020-05-01An unapologetic exploration of the Black mental health crisis--and a comprehensive road map to getting the care you deserve in an unequal system.
Print Books
- Even the Rat Was White byISBN: 9780205392643Publication Date: 2003-03-28Even The Rat Was White views the history of psychology from all perspectives in the quest for historical accuracy. Histories and other background materials are presented in detail concerning early African-American psychologists and their scientific contributions, as well as their problems, views, and concerns of the field of social psychology.
Additional Web Resources on Health Disparities and Healthy Communities
- California Office of Health EquityThe OHE provides a key leadership role to reduce health and mental health disparities experienced by vulnerable communities in California.
- Rural Tribal HealthA clearinghouse for rural tribal health organizations.
- California Rural Indian Health BoardThe California Rural Indian Health Board provides advocacy, shared resources, training, and technical assistance that enhances the delivery of quality comprehensive health-related services to the Indian people of California
- California Black Health NetworkThe California Black Health Network advocates for health equity by providing policy analysis, research and training that promotes best practices, which supports the creation of optimal conditions needed to sustain healthy Black people.
- Latino Coalition for a Healthy CaliforniaA statewide organization working to impact Latino health by focusing on policy development, providing enhanced information, and facilitating community involvement.
- Asian & Pacific Islander American Health ForumAPIAHF influences policy, mobilizes communities, and strengthens programs and organizations to improve the health of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.
- Asian American Pacific Community Health OrganizationsAAPCHO is dedicated to promoting advocacy, collaboration, and leadership that improves community members' health status and access to quality care.
- California Pan-Health NetworkCPEHN promotes health equity by advocating for public policies and sufficient resources to address the health needs of communities of color.