Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care

by Augustus A. White III

Book Overview

If you're going to have a heart attack, an organ transplant, or a joint replacement, here's the key to getting the very best medical care: be a white, straight, middle-class male. This book by a pioneering black surgeon takes on one of the few critically important topics that haven't figured in the heated debate over health care reform--the largely hidden yet massive injustice of bias in medical treatment.

Growing up in Jim Crow-era Tennessee...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674049055
• ISBN13: 9780674049055
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.8"