{"id":43347,"date":"2015-10-20T01:33:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T01:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43347"},"modified":"2016-07-20T14:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T14:00:16","slug":"race-correction-and-inequalities-in-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43347","title":{"rendered":"Race Correction and Inequalities in Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/anth-1310-s01\/2015\/10\/02\/race-correction-and-inequalities-in-medicine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Race Correction and Inequalities in Medicine<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/anth-1310-s01\/\" target=\"_blank\">ANTH 1310 S01: International Health: Anthropological Perspectives<\/a><br \/>\nBrown University, Providence, Rhode Island<br \/>\n2015-10-02<\/p>\n<p><strong>Methma Udawatta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The history of medicine is fraught with unnecessary racialization. In \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520077850\" target=\"_blank\">The Diseased Heart of Africa: Medicine, Colonialism, and the Black Body<\/a>,\u201d Comaroff writes about how the black body became \u201cassociated with degradation, disease, and contagion\u201d and how colonial medicine \u201clink[ed] racial intercourse with the origin of sickness.\u201d These overtly racist ideas have decreased in influence over time. However, even today, the remainders of these ideas still manifest themselves in racial inequalities in treatment and access to medical resources, and in the general racialization of medicine, both in the U.S. and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Smedley and Smedley write about the consistent racial and ethnic disparities in health care in their paper, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43323\" target=\"_blank\">Race as Biology is Fiction, Racism as a Social Problem is Real<\/a>.\u201d They report a series of shocking statistics, which include that Africans Americans and Hispanics in the U.S. tend to receive lower quality health care across many different disease areas, African Americans are more likely than whites to \u201creceive less desirable services, such as amputation,\u201d and that these disparities are \u201cfound across a wide range of clinical settings including public and private hospitals, teaching and nonteaching hospitals.\u2026\u201d Similarly, Livingston details a scenario where a patient O (a black man) is expected to endure an incredible amount of pain during a bone-marrow biopsy without making any sounds of pain. When Mr. J (a white man) undergoes a similar bone marrow aspiration, Dr. A holds his hand and the Motswana nurse comforts him. Livingston writes that \u201chis whiteness apparently creates different expectations around his stoicism.\u201d Smedley and Smedley write that racialized science (and any science that looks for differences between racial groups) can only maintain and reinforce existing inequalities. Although many racial disparities in health are also the product of socioeconomic differences, Smedley and Smedley argue that when we accept this concept, there is the implicit idea that these socioeconomic differences are acceptable&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/anth-1310-s01\/2015\/10\/02\/race-correction-and-inequalities-in-medicine\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race Correction and Inequalities in Medicine ANTH 1310 S01: International Health: Anthropological Perspectives Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 2015-10-02 Methma Udawatta The history of medicine is fraught with unnecessary racialization. In \u201cThe Diseased Heart of Africa: Medicine, Colonialism, and the Black Body,\u201d Comaroff writes about how the black body became \u201cassociated with degradation, disease, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,2039,8],"tags":[21474,21473],"class_list":["post-43347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-anth-1310-s01-international-health-anthropological-perspectives","tag-methma-udawatta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43348,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43347\/revisions\/43348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}