Augustus A. White

Broschiertes Buch

Seeing Patients

A Surgeon's Story of Race and Medical Bias, with a New Preface

Beschreibung

Gus White grew up on the wrong side of the color line in Jim Crow Tennessee, then became the first black medical student at Stanford and a top surgeon at Harvard. Throughout his career he has witnessed unconscious bias against nonwhite patients. Seeing Patients shares these sobering stories and outlines concrete solutions to medical inequity.

Autor

Augustus A. White III, MD, is Professor of Medical Education and Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the first African American department chief at Harvard¿s teaching hospitals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 139mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9780674241374
• ISBN-10: 0674241371
• Artikelnr.: 58310697