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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457101503321

Autore

White Augustus A., III, <1936->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

0-674-05877-1

Descrizione fisica

x, 335 p

Altri autori (Persone)

ChanoffDavid

Disciplina

362.1089/96073

Soggetti

African American surgeons

Discrimination in medical care

African Americans - History

Medical education

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.