Learn more about the ongoing issue of racism in healthcare and medicine by reading books from this collection – available as physical books in the Health Sciences Library, eBooks through the Clarkson University Libraries catalog, and reports, guides, and articles online.
The primary book collection includes numerous books on the topic of race and racism in the healthcare industry and are available for borrowing by the Clarkson community and the public.
Book Group Titles & Discussion Guides
The library has 10 copies of each of these titles available for borrowing by anyone to facilitate group reading and discussions.
- The Color of Law: a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
- Medical Apartheid: the Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
- The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
- A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About Race
- The Yellow House: A Memoir
eBooks
These eBook titles are fully accessible to Clarkson community members and some may be in part to the general public ~ please ask if interested!
- An American Health Dilemma vol. 1. A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race: Beginnings to 1900
- The Anatomy of Blackness: Science & Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment
- Backwater Blues: the Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination
- Becoming Yellow : A Short History of Racial Thinking
- Beyond Obamacare : Life, Death, and Social Policy
- Black and Blue : The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism
- Black fatigue : how racism erodes the mind, body, and spirit
- The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade
- Body and Soul: the Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
- Breathing Race into the Machine : The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
- Coming Full Circle: Spirituality and Wellness Among Native Communities in the Pacific Northwest
- Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
- Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
- Examining Tuskegee: the Infamous Syphilis Study and its Legacy
- From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954
- Holding on: African American Women Surviving HIV/AIDS
- “If You Knew the Conditions”: a Chronicle of the Indian Medical Service and American Indian Health Care, 1908-1955
- Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
- Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation
- Just Medicine: a Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
- Making a Place for Ourselves: the Black Hospital Movement, 1920-1945
- Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality
- Mapping Race : Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
- Measuring Manhood: Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830-1934
- Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
- Medicine Unbundled: a Journey Through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
- North Carolina & the Problem of AIDS: Advocacy, Politics, & Race in the South
- On Race and Medicine : Insider Perspectives
- Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader
- Pathologies of Power : Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
- Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America
- The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
- Race, Ethnicity, and Health : A Public Health Reader
- Race in a Bottle: the Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age
- Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960
- Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S Imperialism in Puerto Rico
- Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences
- Reproductive Justice: the Politics of Health Care for Native American Women
- Researcher Race : Social Constructions in the Research Process
- Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny After Reconstruction
- Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It
- Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care
- Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia
- Sentenced to Science: One Black Man’s Story of Imprisonment in America
- Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women’s Health Activism in America, 1890-1950
- Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry
- Successful Societies : How Institutions and Culture Affect Health
- Technology and the Logic of American Racism : A Cultural History of the Body As Evidence
- A Theory for Indigenous Australian Health and Human Service Work : Connecting Indigenous Knowledge and Practice
- Toward Equity in Health: A New Global Approach to Health Disparities
- The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine : Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease
- Under the Strain of Color: Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry
- Unequal Treatment : Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
- Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
- The Uses of Humans in Experiment: Perspectives from the 17th to the 20th Century
- What’s the Use of Race? : Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
- The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People, 1830-1925
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About Race
- Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
Reports, Guides, & Articles
- Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts – guide from the American Medical Association (AMA) & Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Center for Health Justice. A deeper understanding of equity-focused, person-first language and why it matters.
- Advocating for Anti-Racist Mental Health Policies with a Focus on Dismantling Anti-Black Racism
Resource document from the American Psychiatric Association, October 2021 - Beyond a Moment — Reckoning with Our History and Embracing Antiracism in Medicine
Article; Paul, D., et. al., New England Journal of Medicine, October 2020 - Calling Out Aversive Racism in Academic Medicine
Article; Chen, C.L., et. al., New England Journal of Medicine, December 2021. - Confronting Racism in Health Care: Moving from Proclamations to New Practices
Article; Hostetter, Martha and Sarah Klein, The Commonwealth Fund, October 2021 - The Costs of Institutional Racism and its Ethical Implications for Healthcare
Symposium report; Amanuel, E. & Yin Paradies, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, January 2021 - Eliminating Race-Based Medicine
Article & policy statement; Wright, J.L. , et al. Pediatrics, June 2022 - Empathy, Dignity, and Respect: Creating Cultural Safety for Aboriginal People in Urban Health Care
Report from the Health Council of Canada, December 2012 - Fact Versus Fiction: Clinical Decision Support Tools and the (Mis)use of Race
Majority Staff Report from the 117th Congress House Committee on Ways and Means - Framing the Dialogue on Race and Ethnicity to Advance Health Equity
Proceedings of a roundtable workshop on population health improvement; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; Health and Medicine Division; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, October 2016 - From Race-Based to Race-Conscious Medicine: How Anti-Racist Uprisings Call Us to Act
Article; Cerdena, J. et al., The Lancet, October 2020. - In Plain Sight: Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in B.C. Health Care
Report from the Government of British Columbia, November 2020 - Racial Discrimination in Healthcare: How Structural Racism Affects Healthcare
Article; St. Catherine University, June 2021 - Racism in Medicine
Articles; British Journal of Medicine special issue focused on race and its impact on health, February 2020 - Reckoning with histories of medical racism and violence in the USA
Article, Nuriddin, A., et al., The Lancet, October 2020 - Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Report; June 2019 - Reducing Racial Disparities in Health Care by Confronting Racism
Article; Hostetter, Martha & Sarah Klein, Transforming Care (Commonwealth Fund newsletter), September 2018 - The State of Healthcare in the United States
Articles; Human Rights Magazine (American Bar Association) special issue focused on disparities in healthcare, August 2018 - Structural Racism In Historical And Modern US Health Care Policy
Article; Yearby, R. et al., Health Affairs, February 2022 - Toward the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine: Transforming Clinical Medicine
Report from Institute of Healing & Justice in Medicine, 2020.