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The mind electric : a neurologist on the strangeness and wonder of our brains / by Anand, Priaauthor;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A girl believes she has been struck blind for stealing a kiss. A mother watches helplessly as each of her children is replaced by a changeling. A woman is haunted each month by the same four chords of a single song. In neurology, illness is inextricably linked with narrative, the clues to unraveling these mysteries hidden in both the details of a patient's story and the tells of their body. Stories are etched into the very structure of our brains, coded so deeply that the impulse for storytelling survives and even surges after the most devastating injuries. But our brains are also porous-the stories they concoct shaped by cultural narratives about bodies and illness that permeate the minds of doctors and patients alike. In the history of medicine, some stories are heard, while others--the narratives of women, of Black and brown people, of displaced people, of disempowered people--are too often dismissed. In The Mind Electric, neurologist Pria Anand reveals-through case study, history, fable, and memoir-all that the medical establishment has overlooked: the complexity and wonder of brains in health and in extremis, and the vast gray area between sanity and insanity, doctor and patient, and illness and wellness, each separated from the next by the thin veneer of a different story. Moving from the Boston hospital where she treats her patients, to her childhood years in India, to Isla Providencia in the Caribbean and to the Republic of Guinea in West Africa, she demonstrates again and again the compelling paradox at the heart of neurology: that even the most peculiar symptoms can show us something universal about ourselves as humans." --
Subjects: Personal narratives.; Nervous system; Neurosciences.; Central nervous system; Sexism in medicine.; Racism in medicine.;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 22
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Legacy : a black physician reckons with racism in medicine / by Blackstock, Uché,author.(CARDINAL)884020;
Includes bibliographical references."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"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Blackstock, Uché.; Blackstock, Uché; African American women physicians; African American physicians; Women physicians; Physicians; Racism in medicine; Discrimination in medical education; Discrimination in medical care; Women physicians; Women in medicine; Racism in medicine;
Available copies: 25 / Total copies: 28
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Weathering : the extraordinary stress of ordinary life in an unjust society / by Geronimus, Arline T.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-343) and index."Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people"--
Subjects: Racism; Poverty; Equality; Health; Racism in medicine; Racism.;
Available copies: 21 / Total copies: 21
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What's wrong : personal histories of chronic pain and bad medicine / by Williams, Erin,author.(CARDINAL)816443;
"Erin Williams's graphic exploration of how the American health-care system fails us. Focusing on four raw and complex firsthand accounts, plus Williams's own story, this book examines the consequences of living with interconnected illnesses and conditions like: immunodeficiency cancer endometriosis alcoholism severe depression PTSD Western medicine, which intends to cure illness and minimize pain, often causes more loss, abuse, and suffering for those Americans who don't fit within the narrow definition of who the system was built to serve--cis, white, heterosexual men. The book explores the many ways in which those receiving medical care are often overlooked, unseen, and doubted by the very clinicians who are supposed to heal them"--
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Discrimination in medical care; Minorities; Racism in medicine; Sexism in medicine;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Sorrowland [sound recording] / by Solomon, Rivers,author.(CARDINAL)349282; Chilton, Karen,narrator.(CARDINAL)660076;
Read by Karen Chilton.Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong, not with them, but with her own body. It's itching, it's stronger, it's not normal. To understand her body's metamorphosis, Vern must investigate the secluded religious compound from which she fled and the violent history of dehumanization, medical experimentation, and genocide that produced it. In the course of reclaiming her own darkness, Vern learns that monsters aren't just individuals, but entire histories, systems, and nations.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Audiobooks.; Magic realist fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Survival; Twins; Racism; Metamorphosis; Cult members; Religious communities; Human experimentation in medicine;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Critical condition [videorecording] : health in Black America / by Nelson, Stanley,1951-screenwriter,television producer,television director.; Readdean, Cyndee,television producer.; Scoon, Valerie,television producer.; Ray, Lynneisha,television producer.; Smith, Llewellyn,television producer.(CARDINAL)270323; Thomson, Kelly,television producer.; Tunie, Tamara,narrator.; Barnes, Reginald,narrator.; Haberli, Joel,narrator.; BlueSpark Collaborative,production company.; Firelight Films (Firm),production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),filmm distributor.(CARDINAL)309769; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),publisher.(CARDINAL)189964; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.),production company.(CARDINAL)154259;
Edited by Aljernon Tunsil.Narrators, Tamara Tunie, Reginald Barnes, Joel Haberli.Black Americans are nearly twice as likely to have high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease than White Americans, and their life expectancy is about five years shorter. Why? In a special feature-length documentary, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Stanley Nelson investigates the dramatic health disparities in the US, even as scientists confirm that there are no meaningful genetic differences between races.English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH); descriptive audio in EnglishDVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen presentation, stereo.
Subjects: Television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Science television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; African Americans; African Americans; Racism in medicine; Public health; Public health; Medicine;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Madness : race and insanity in a Jim Crow asylum / by Hylton, Antonia,author.(CARDINAL)883917;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-338) and index.A negro asylum -- All the superintendent's men -- The sea, the farm, and the forest -- What could drive a Black man mad? -- The architecture of injustice -- Cousin Maynard -- Black men are escaping -- A burning house -- A bus ride to Rosewood -- Love and broken promises -- Out of sight, out of mind -- Medical and surgical -- Nurse Faye and Sonia King -- Screaming at the sky -- The curious case of the Elkton three -- Sympathy for me but not for thee -- In the balance -- Irredeemable or incurable -- The fire -- Closing Crownsville -- Epilogue: but by the grace of God."On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum. In Madness, Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. She blends the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade-worth of investigative research and archival documents. Madness chronicles the stories of Black families whose mental health suffered as they tried, and sometimes failed, to find safety and dignity. Hylton also grapples with her own family's experiences with mental illness, and the secrecy and shame that it reproduced for generations. As Crownsville Hospital grew from an antebellum-style work camp to a tiny city sitting on 1,500 acres, the institution became a microcosm of America's evolving battles over slavery, racial integration, and civil rights. During its peak years, the hospital's wards were overflowing with almost 2,700 patients. By the end of the 20th-century, the asylum faded from view as prisons and jails became America's new focus. In Madness, Hylton traces the legacy of slavery to the treatment of Black people's bodies and minds in our current mental healthcare system. It is a captivating and heartbreaking meditation on how America decides who is sick or criminal, and who is worthy of our care or irredeemable"--
Subjects: Informational works.; Crownsville State Hospital; Psychiatric hospitals; African Americans; African Americans; Mentally ill; Racism in medicine.;
Available copies: 44 / Total copies: 55
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Under the skin : the hidden toll of racism on American lives and on the health of our nation / by Villarosa, Linda,author.(CARDINAL)373147;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-247) and index."The first book to tell the full story of race and health in America today, showing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation, by a groundbreaking journalist at the New York Times Magazine"--
Subjects: Health and race; African Americans; Discrimination in medical care; Racism in medicine; Racism against Black people; African Americans;
Available copies: 37 / Total copies: 49
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Medicine, science, and making race in Civil War America / by Schwalm, Leslie A.(Leslie Ann),1956-author.(CARDINAL)888033;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-208) and index.Militarizing race -- Commissioning race -- Narrating and enumerating race -- Anatomizing race -- The afterlife of race."Diving deeply into the tables and statistics, specimens, skull collections, reports, questionnaires, and surveys that make up the recently organized and newly available records of the United States Sanitary Commission, Leslie A. Schwalm reveals the racial project of the Civil War as it unfolded in Northern white medical and scientific organizations. Despite the Civil War's importance as a watershed moment in the country's history of anti-Blackness, Union victory and the abolition of slavery did not dislodge the racial hierarchies and ideas about people of African descent that had existed before the war"--
Subjects: United States Sanitary Commission; Racism in medicine; Scientific racism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hospital city, health care nation : race, capital, and the costs of American health care / by McKee, Guian A., author.(CARDINAL)491158;
Includes bibliographical references and index."This book recasts the story of the health care system by emphasizing the economic and social importance of hospitals in American communities. While hospitals have become vital economic anchors in cities across the country, the spending that supports them has constrained possibilities for comprehensive health care reform"-- from publisher
Subjects: Johns Hopkins Hospital.; Medical care, Cost of; Medical policy; Urban hospitals; Urban hospitals; Health care reform; Racism in medicine;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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