Day: May 18, 2015

  • The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Wald Sussman (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 46, Number 1, Summer 2015 pages 109-111 Ruth Clifford Engs, Professor Emeritus of Applied Health Science Indiana University, Bloomington Sussman, Robert Wald, The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea (Cambridge:…

  • The Case for Black Doctors The New York Times 2015-05-15 Damon Tweedy, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Duke University, Durham, North Carolina DURHAM, N.C. — IN virtually every field of medicine, black patients as a group fare the worst. This was one of my first and most painful lessons as a medical student…