Screen LibrarySeeing patients：unconscious bias in health care
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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. London, England |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | v, 335 p.: ill., photographs ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780674049055 (alk. paper) 0674049055 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | K837 |
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K837.128.7 R199.712 K712.8 |
| Call Number: | K837.128.7/W582 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-319) and index. It takes a village: Memphis -- Scrub nurse -- Becoming a doctor: Stanford -- Becoming a surgeon: Yale -- Combat surgeon: death and our common humanity -- Getting toward equal: Sweden -- A man ain't nothin' but a man -- Orthopedic chief: Harvard -- Diagnosis and treatment: the subconscious at work -- Health-care disparities: race -- Health-care disparities: women, Hispanics, elderly, gay -- Culturally competent care. "... Use[s] extensive research and interviews with leading physicians to show how subconscious sterotyping influences doctor-patient interactions, diagnosis, and treatment"--From publisher description. |