{"product_id":"just-medicine-a-cure-for-racial-inequality-in-american-health-care-9781479896738","title":"Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care","description":"\u003cp\u003eOffers an innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in American health care and save the lives they endanger  Over 84 000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities: the unfair  unjust  and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial and ethnic minorities and care provided to whites. Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care systemand in Just Medicine Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians  institutional providers  and their patients.  Implicit bias is the single most important determinant of health and health care disparities. Because we have missed this fact  the money we spend on training providers to become culturally competent  expanding wellness education programs and community health centers  and even expanding access to health insurance will have only a modest effect on reducing health disparities. We will continue to utterly fail in the effort to eradicate health disparities unless we enact strong  evidence-based legal remedies that accurately address implicit and unintentional forms of discrimination  to replace the weak  tepid  and largely irrelevant legal remedies currently available.  Our continued failure to fashion an effective response that purges the effects of implicit bias from American health care  Matthew argues  is unjust and morally untenable. In this book  she unites medical  neuroscience  psychology  and sociology research on implicit bias and health disparities with her own expertise in civil rights and constitutional law. In a time when the health of the entire nation is at risk  it is essential to confront the issues keeping the health care system from providing equal treatment to all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646938046517,"sku":"ByrdShop_147989673X","price":34.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781479896738.jpg?v=1781682364","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/just-medicine-a-cure-for-racial-inequality-in-american-health-care-9781479896738","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}