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Anti-Racism Resources for the Health Sciences

Kenya Beard at the Future of Nursing 2030 Seattle Town Hall

Inequities, structural racism, and implications for nursing practice (14:04)

Toward the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine: Transforming Clinical Education, Research, and Practice
The use of biological race in medicine is an unchallenged, outdated norm throughout clinical education, research, and practice.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.
Clinical Conversations Training Program
A series of 6 brief modules created for clinicians and other clinical staff on topics such as social determinants of health, cultural humility, and shared decision making. From the Network of National Libraries of Medicine.
Changing How Race Is Portrayed in Medical Education: Recommendations From Medical Students
The 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 Education
A 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.

The Morehouse Model by Ronald L. Braithwaite; Tabia Henry Akintobi; Daniel S. Blumenthal; W. Mary Langley
ISBN: 9781421438047
Publication Date: 2020-06-16
Among 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.

Biographies and Memoirs of Black Healthcare Practitioners

Black Man in a White Coat by Damon Tweedy
ISBN: 9781250105042
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
[COMING SOON- new texts have been delayed due to COVID-19 interruptions]
One 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 by Michele Harper
ISBN: 9780525537380
Publication Date: 2020-07-07
Michele 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 by Deirdre Cooper Owens
ISBN: 9780820354750
Publication Date: 2018-07-15
The 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 by Lundy Braun
ISBN: 9780816683574
Publication Date: 2014-02-01
In 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 by Harriet A. Washington
ISBN: 9780767915472
Publication Date: 2008-01-08
Medical Apartheidis 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 Medicine
From 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.

Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts
ISBN: 9781595588340
Publication Date: 2012-09-04
This 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 by Adia Harvey Wingfield
ISBN: 9780520300347
Publication Date: 2019-07-02
What 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 by Alondra Nelson
ISBN: 9780816676491
Publication Date: 2013-09-01
Drawing 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 by John Hoberman
ISBN: 9780520274013
Publication Date: 2012-04-03
Black & 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 by Sabrina Strings
ISBN: 9781479886753
Publication Date: 2019-05-07
How 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 by Dayna Bowen Matthew
ISBN: 9781479851621
Publication Date: 2018-07-05
Offers 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

Gender, Race, Class and Health by Amy J. Schulz (Editor); Leith Mullings (Editor)
ISBN: 9780787976637
Publication Date: 2005-12-02
Gender, Race, Class, and Health examines relationships between economic structures, race, culture, and gender, and their combined influence on health.
Subprime Health by Nadine Ehlers (Editor); Leslie R. Hinkson (Editor)
ISBN: 9781517901509
Publication Date: 2017-07-15
From 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 Tracker
A 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 Disparities
A 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 Data
All Cases and Deaths associated with COVID-19 by Race and Ethnicity.
COVID-19 - Racial Equity & Social Justice Resources
Reading 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 Alliance
Black 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

Reproducing Race by Khiara Bridges
ISBN: 9780520268951
Publication Date: 2011-03-18
Reproducing 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 by Dána-Ain Davis
ISBN: 9781479853571
Publication Date: 2019-06-25
A 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 by Nefertiti Austin
ISBN: 9781492679011
Publication Date: 2019-09-20
Nefertiti Austin shares her story of starting a family through adoption as a single Black woman.

Print Books

We Live for the We by Dani McClain
ISBN: 9781568588544
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
[COMING SOON - new texts have been delayed due to COVID-19 interruptions]
A 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 by Julia Chinyere Oparah; Helen Arega; Dantia Hudson
ISBN: 9781946665119
Publication Date: 2017-12-02
[COMING SOON- new texts have been delayed due to COVID-19 interruptions]
"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 by Wendy Gonaver
ISBN: 9781469648446
Publication Date: 2019-03-18
Though 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 by Rheeda Walker
ISBN: 9781684034147
Publication Date: 2020-05-01
An 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 by Robert V. Guthrie
ISBN: 9780205392643
Publication Date: 2003-03-28
Even 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 Equity
The OHE provides a key leadership role to reduce health and mental health disparities experienced by vulnerable communities in California.
Rural Tribal Health
A clearinghouse for rural tribal health organizations.
California Rural Indian Health Board
The 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 Network
The 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 California
A statewide organization working to impact Latino health by focusing on policy development, providing enhanced information, and facilitating community involvement.
Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
APIAHF 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 Organizations
AAPCHO is dedicated to promoting advocacy, collaboration, and leadership that improves community members' health status and access to quality care.
California Pan-Health Network
CPEHN promotes health equity by advocating for public policies and sufficient resources to address the health needs of communities of color.