"Black & Blue" is the first systematic description of how
American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind
of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The
standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of
black people and do not address the racially motivated thinking and
behaviors of physicians practicing medicine today.
"Black & Blue" penetrates the physician's private sphere where
racial fantasies and misinformation distort diagnoses and
treatments. Doctors have always absorbed the racial stereotypes and
folkloric beliefs about racial differences that permeate the
general population. Within the world of medicine this racial
folklore has infiltrated all of the medical sub-disciplines, from
cardiology to gynecology to psychiatry. Doctors have thus imposed
white or black racial identities upon every organ system of the
human body, along with racial interpretations of black children,
the black elderly, the black athlete, black musicality, black pain
thresholds, and other aspects of black minds and bodies. The
American medical establishment does not readily absorb either
historical or current information about medical racism. For this
reason, racial enlightenment will not reach medical schools until
the current race-aversive curricula include new historical and
sociological perspectives.
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