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Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Description
"Two pink lines on a pregnancy test. The primal scream of a woman pushing through her thirty-fifth hour of labor. The moment a still-wet newborn is placed in his mother's open arms after an unexpected c-section. The bottomless love reflected in the eyes of a father seeing his daughter for the first time. The moment a baby latches to her mother's breast. Or the moment that mother decides to switch to formula. Each of these, and so many more, are stories...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
269 pages
Description
In 2018, Linda Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America caused an awakening. Hundreds of studies had previously established a link between racial discrimination and the health of Black Americans, with little progress toward solutions. But Villarosa's article exposing that a Black woman with a college education is as likely to die or nearly die in childbirth as a white woman...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"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 of Chicago Medical School. As soon as he graduated, he...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, Jeter Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
viii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
An investigation into how racial inequality has shaped the heart transplant race describes how in 1968 an injured black man checked into a hospital before his heart was removed and donated without his family's knowledge or consent.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black Americans. When Damon Tweedy begins medical school,he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working-class background will become largely irrelevant. Instead, he finds that he has joined a new world where race is front and center. The recipient of a scholarship designed to increase black student enrollment, Tweedy...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
11 CDs (14 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Journalist Daniel Okrent tells the story of the scientists who argued that certain nationalities were inherently inferior and thereby provided the intellectual justification for the harshest immigration law in American history. The eugenic arguments helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the US for more than forty years.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustrations (black and white) portrait ; 22 cm
Description
"Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uche Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an organization of Black women physicians, and for years the girls watched these fiercely intelligent women in white coats tend to their patients and neighbors, host community health fairs, cure ills, and save lives. What Dr. Uche Blackstock did not understand as a child or...
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