Racial discrimination in medicine

Deception in research, and racial discrimination in medicine.

encourage better quality service and extend the range of activities that private doctors provide to include preventive programmes such as immunisation. These goals seem reasonable on paper but require a strong political commitment to ensure the accessibility of basic primary health services to the population and the existence of a clear vision of the minimum level of service that the state expe...

Racial discrimination in pain management*

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The vulnerability of certain races and ethnicities may be worsened by the subjectivity of pain. So, this study aimed at identifying whether there has been racial discrimination in pain control by health professionals. CONTENTS: This is a literature review and queried databases were: PubMed/Medline, LILACS, SciELO, Cochrane, EMBASE, SCOPUS and psycINFO with keywords in...

Racial distinctions in medicine.

Running Head: CONSUMER RACIAL DISCRIMINATION Consumer Racial Discrimination in Tipping: A Replication and Extension

This study examines the effects of server race, customer race and their interaction on restaurant tips while statistically controlling for the customers’ perceptions of service quality and other variables. The findings indicate that consumers of both races discriminate against black service providers by tipping them less than white service providers. Furthermore, this server race effect on tipp...

Racial discrimination and mental illness

Chakraborty & McKenzie (2002) ask: ‘Does racial discrimination cause mental illness?’ In raising criticisms of their paper, one might risk allegations of political incorrectness, but hopefully readers will feel that science is a more important consideration. The question that they pose is, to my mind, a simplistic one which is likely to give rise to a simplistic answer. To ask ‘does smoking cau...