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The following books and articles are just a small selection of resources available at Laupus Library exploring topics related to inequality in health due to race, gender, sexual orientation and ability.
The first full history of Black America's shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment.
An educational framework for rethinking disability in public health study and practice, and for attaining the competencies that should accompany this knowledge.
Health Care Disparities and the LGBT Population addresses a people whose lack of health care access, including mistreatment and refusal of services, are often omitted from discussions about health care and insurance reform.
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine:
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.
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.
A troubling study of the role that medical racism plays in the lives of black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infants
The contributors to Bodies and Barriers look for tangible improvements, drawing from the history of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. and from struggles against health care bias and discrimination...An indispensable blueprint for change by some of the most passionate and important health activists in the LGBT movement today.
A comprehensive, up-to-date resource for understanding and addressing the profound impacts of social injustice on public health.
