Book contents
- Embodied Injustice
- Embodied Injustice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Health Disparities Based on Race and Disability
- 3 Biology’s (In)significance
- 4 Medical Mistrust
- 5 Maligned Mothers
- 6 Medicaid Preservation
- 7 Beyond Health Care
- 8 COVID Stories
- 9 The Busy, Troubled Intersection of Blackness and Disability
- 10 Conclusion
- Index
3 - Biology’s (In)significance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2022
- Embodied Injustice
- Embodied Injustice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Health Disparities Based on Race and Disability
- 3 Biology’s (In)significance
- 4 Medical Mistrust
- 5 Maligned Mothers
- 6 Medicaid Preservation
- 7 Beyond Health Care
- 8 COVID Stories
- 9 The Busy, Troubled Intersection of Blackness and Disability
- 10 Conclusion
- Index
Summary
During President Barack Obama’s second term, White medical students and residents at a prestigious public university participated in a research study exploring beliefs associated with racial bias in pain management, an area with well-documented racial disparities in clinical care. These highly educated doctors in training completed a questionnaire asking the extent to which they thought that fifteen factual assertions about biological differences between Blacks and Whites were true or untrue. They also read two mock medical cases about patients (one Black and one White) with a painful condition (kidney stone or ankle fracture), rated how much pain they believed the patients were in, and made recommendations for treating that pain.1
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- Embodied InjusticeRace, Disability, and Health, pp. 41 - 69Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022