{"product_id":"just-medicine-a-cure-for-racial-inequality-in-american-health-care-hardcover","title":"Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDayna Bowen Matthew\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOffers an innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in American health care and save the lives they endanger\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOver 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities: the unfair, unjust, and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial and ethnic minorities and care provided to whites. Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system--and in \u003ci\u003eJust Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImplicit bias is the single most important determinant of health and health care disparities. Because we have missed this fact, the money we spend on training providers to become culturally competent, expanding wellness education programs and community health centers, and even expanding access to health insurance will have only a modest effect on reducing health disparities. We will continue to utterly fail in the effort to eradicate health disparities unless we enact strong, evidence-based legal remedies that accurately address implicit and unintentional forms of discrimination, to replace the weak, tepid, and largely irrelevant legal remedies currently available. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOur continued failure to fashion an effective response that purges the effects of implicit bias from American health care, Matthew argues, is unjust and morally untenable. In this book, she unites medical, neuroscience, psychology, and sociology research on implicit bias and health disparities with her own expertise in civil rights and constitutional law. In a time when the health of the entire nation is at risk, it is essential to confront the issues keeping the health care system from providing equal treatment to all.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.1 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 11, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432641151154,"sku":"9781479896738","price":192.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/b094ade500aa20eb00b0c88290e4bf4b_4956650a-2c1c-49db-9bc2-55159992bfc9.webp?v=1778607602","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/just-medicine-a-cure-for-racial-inequality-in-american-health-care-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}