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Negligent by Design: Anti-Blackness in American Medicine and How to Address It

Negligent by Design: Anti-Blackness in American Medicine and How to Address It

Grubbs, Vanessa

Paperback

Health GeneralMedical ReferenceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

Publisher Price: $20.95

ISBN13: 9798889842354
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: Sep 2 2025
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A searing critique of medical racism and a powerful call for health-care professionals to make real change in their field, written by a leading activist and doctor

Unequal access to care. Misdiagnosis. Mistreatment. Medical gaslighting. An increasing number of studies show the profound impacts racism has on communities of color--particularly Black Americans. But these disparities in health care and wellbeing are not the result of a handful of uninformed or malicious doctors: racism in the medical system is institutional, woven into the very fabric of diagnostic criteria and even hospital infrastructure. Medicine denies fair treatment to Black patients not in error...but by design.

Drawing from extensive research, in-depth interviews with medical students and resident physicians, and over twenty-five years of experience as a medical doctor, Dr. Vanessa Grubbs argues that the reason racism in medicine continues to go unchecked is because it is in fact the standard of care. Any attempts to dismantle medical racism through placebo efforts such as forming diversity committees or releasing statements condemning racism will fail, she says, because they don't address the reality of how the institution of Medicine has been, and continues to be, negligent when it comes to the treatment of Black people.

Dr. Grubbs skillfully unpacks the three core problems of how our health-care system currently considers the race of patients, which she identifies as being race based, race disregarded, and race denied.

  • When medical diagnoses and trainings are race based, they lead doctors to make different treatment decisions for Black patients, and create a dangerous disadvantage.

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