The COVID-19 pandemic brought the issue of healthcare disparities and related inequalities to the forefront. This fall’s collection highlight’s display features books on systemic racism, socioeconomic discrimination, access to education, the physical environment, social support, and health equity in contemporary and historical perspectives. The titles examine these problems and offer potential solutions to help improve outcomes for underserved patients and communities.
Some eBook highlights from the collection can be found at the following links:
- American Indian health disparities in the 21st Century. Cornelius Dyke, 2021
- Black man in a white coat: A doctor’s reflections on race and medicine. Damon Tweedy, 2015
- Health equity, diversity, and inclusion: Context, controversies, and solutions. Patti Rose, 2021
- Just Medicine: A cure for racial inequality in American health care. Dayna Matthew, 2018 (and in print at Woodruff RA448.4 .M38 2015)
- The racial divide in American medicine: Black physicians and the struggle for justice in health care. Richard DeShazo, 2018 (and in print at Woodruff RA563.M56 R334 2018)
- Reproductive injustice: Racism, pregnancy, and premature birth. Dána-Ain Davis, 2019 (and in print at Woodruff RA564.86 .D38 2019 and Oxford 362.1082 D2615R)
- Sickening: Anti-black racism and health disparities in the United States. Anne Pollock, 2021
- Subprime health: Debt and race in U.S. medicine. Nadine Ehlers, editor, 2017 (and in print at Woodruff RA448.5.N4 S83 2017)
- Unequal cities: Structural racism and the death gap in America’s largest cities. Maureen Benjamins, editor, 2021 (and in print at Woodruff RA418 .U54 2021)
Learn more about the display at the collection’s Social Determinants of Health webpage and visit the WHSC Library to check out the print materials in this collection.
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