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Eliminating Race-Based Mental Health Disparities

Eliminating Race-Based Mental Health Disparities offers concrete guidelines and evidence-based best practices for addressing racial inequities and biases in clinical care.

Reproductive Injustice

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 Black women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America.

Medical Bondage

Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied these women their full humanity yet valued them as "medical superbodies" highly suited for medical experimentation.

Medical Apartheid

From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment.

Recommended Reading

This is a list of books that are not available through Allina's library, but are available through any public library in the state, many in Print, eBook and Audio formats.

  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  • Just Medicine: A Cure of Racial Inequality in American Health Care by Dayna Bowen Matthew
  • Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
  • Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation by Harriet A. Washingto
  • Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
  • A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and It’s Assault on the American Mind by Harriet A. Washington.
  • Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman
  • Black LGBT Health in the United States: The Intersection of Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation by Lourdes Dolores Follins and Jonathan Mathias Lassiter
  • My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
  • Black Man in a White Coat by Damon Tweedy
  • Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson

Yale University Library: Race and Racism in Health Care Syllabus: A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine
AAMC Anti-racism in Medicine Collection