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Legacy : a black physician reckons with racism in medicine  Cover Image Book Book

Legacy : a black physician reckons with racism in medicine / Uché Blackstock, M.D.

Blackstock, Uché, (author., Author).

Summary:

"The rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché 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. Uché Blackstock did not understand as a child-or learn about at Harvard Medical School, where she and her sister had followed in their mother's footsteps, making them the first Black mother-daughter legacies from the school-were the profound and long-standing systemic inequities that mean just 2 percent of all U.S. physicians today are Black women; the racist practices and policies that ensure Black Americans have far worse health outcomes than any other group in the country; and the flawed system that endangers the well-being of communities like theirs. As an ER physician, and later as a professor in academic medicine, Dr. Blackstock became profoundly aware of the systemic barriers that Black patients and physicians continue to face. Legacy is a journey through the critical intersection of racism and healthcare. At once a searing indictment of our healthcare system, a generational family memoir, and a call to action, Legacy is Dr. Blackstock's odyssey from child to medical student to practicing physician-to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593491287
  • ISBN: 0593491289
  • Physical Description: 294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: [New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2024]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294).
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- Part I. Where it begins. The original Dr. Blackstock -- Something wrong -- Everything we lost -- All the things they didn't teach me -- Misdiagnosed -- Part II. Opening my eyes. Homecoming -- Three patients -- A tale of two emergency rooms -- Motherhood -- Diversity and exclusion -- Part III. Unbound. Truth to power -- All the patients look like us -- Where I'm supposed to be -- A better way -- The way forward: actions speak louder than words -- Epilogue.
Subject: Blackstock, Uché.
Blackstock, Uché > Family.
African American women physicians > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
African American physicians > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Women physicians > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Physicians > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Racism in medicine > United States.
Discrimination in medical education > United States.
Discrimination in medical care > United States.
Women physicians > Biography.
Women in medicine > History.
Racism in medicine > History.
Racism in medicine.
Systemic Racism.
Racism.
Sexism.
Femmes médecins > Biographies.
Femmes en médecine > Histoire.
Racisme en médecine > Histoire.
Femmes médecins noires américaines > New York (État) > New York > Biographies.
Femmes médecins > New York (État) > New York > Biographies.
Racisme en médecine.
Discrimination dans l'enseignement de la médecine > États-Unis.
Discrimination dans les soins médicaux > États-Unis.
Médecins noirs américains > New York (État) > New York > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients)
MEDICAL / Emergency Medicine.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black.
African American women physicians > Biography.
Discrimination in medical care > United States.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Genre: Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Autobiography.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Homer Public Library 610.92 BLA (Text) 000175130 New Books Checked out 11/10/2024


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