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Unconscious Bias in Health Care
Harvard University Press
January 2011
On Sale: January 15, 2011
352 pages
ISBN: 0674049055
EAN: 9780674049055
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
If you’re going to have a heart attack, an organ transplant,
or a joint replacement, here’s the key to getting the very
best medical care: be a white, straight, middle-class male.
This book by a pioneering black surgeon takes on one of the
few critically important topics that haven’t figured in the
heated debate over health care reform—the largely hidden yet
massive injustice of bias in medical treatment. Growing up in Jim Crow–era Tennessee and training and
teaching in overwhelmingly white medical institutions, Gus
White witnessed firsthand how prejudice works in the world
of medicine. And while race relations have changed
dramatically, old ways of thinking die hard. In Seeing
Patients White draws upon his experience in startlingly
different worlds to make sense of the unconscious bias that
riddles medical treatment, and to explore what it means for
health care in a diverse twenty-first-century America. White and co-author David Chanoff use extensive research and
interviews with leading physicians to show how subconscious
stereotyping influences doctor-patient interactions,
diagnosis, and treatment. Their book brings together
insights from the worlds of social psychology, neuroscience,
and clinical practice to define the issues clearly and, most
importantly, to outline a concrete approach to fixing this
fundamental inequity in the delivery of health care.
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