Foreword: envisioning health disparities.

نویسنده

  • Scott Burris
چکیده

No one approves of it. Our laws prohibit it. Yet racism will not go away. We continue to demonstrate that a colorblind society is just a society where color lurks in the blind spot. Disparities in healthcare offer a telling illustration of how durably racism is woven in our social fabric, and how easy it is for subtle, unconscious differences in treatment to add up to significant disparities in outcome. Disparities also give us an opportunity to see health differently. Instead of focusing on the outcomes of individual cases, disparities invite us to examine the social structures and processes through which the level and distribution of health are determined. Like racism, health is to a considerable degree a social product, reflecting how we order the world rather than our biological or genetic limits.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • American journal of law & medicine

دوره 29 2-3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003