TED Talk: The Problem with Race-Based Medicine
Social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts has a precise and powerful message: Race-based medicine is bad medicine. Even today, many doctors still use race as a medical shortcut; they make important decisions about things like pain tolerance based on a patient's skin color instead of medical observation and measurement. In this searing talk, Roberts lays out the lingering traces of race-based medicine -- and invites us to be a part of ending it. "It is more urgent than ever to finally abandon this backward legacy," she says, "and to affirm our common humanity by ending the social inequalities that truly divide us."
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Medical Bondage by Call Number: WP 11 AA1 C778m 2017ISBN: 9780820351353Publication Date: 2017-11-15
The Women Who Caught the Babies by Call Number: PHX Reserves WQ 11 AS9 G812w 2019ISBN: 9780997772074Publication Date: 2019-09-01
Battling over Birth by Call Number: WA 310 AA1 O61b 2018ISBN: 9781946665119Publication Date: 2017-12-02
