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African Americans Health and hygiene African Americans Social conditions Discrimination dans les soins médicaux États-Unis Discrimination in medical care Discrimination in medical care United States Gender identity Health Sex differences Sex discrimination in medicine United States WomenFisher, Thomas
Summary: "Thomas Fisher was raised on the South Side of Chicago and even as a kid understood how close death could feel-he came from a family of pioneering doctors who believed in staying in the community, but on those streets he saw just how vulnerable Black bodies could be. Determined to follow his family's legacy, Fisher studied public health at Dartmouth and Harvard, then returned to the University...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.1089 FISCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1089 FISVillarosa, Linda
Summary: "The first book to tell the full story of race and health in America today, showing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation, by a groundbreaking journalist at the New York Times Magazine"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.1089 VILHossain, Anushay
Summary: Growing up in Bangladesh in the 1980s, the concept of women's healthcare hardly existed. Hossain was relieved to deliver her baby in the US. But things started to go awry from the minute she stepped in the hospital, and after thirty hours of labor Hossain ran a fever of 104 degrees, she shook and trembled uncontrollably, and the doctors finally performed an emergency C-section. Her experience...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2021