Race, ethnicity and health care/Structural racism

  • History of Medicine
    Jun 2014

    The American Medical Association and Race

    Robert B. Baker, PhD
    Racial integration in American organized medicine was very slow to come, and many wrongs were committed in the name of reunifying the country's doctors after the Civil War.
    Virtual Mentor. 2014;16(6):479-488. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.6.mhst1-1406.
  • Art of Medicine
    Jun 2012

    Mainstream Anxieties about Race in Antipsychotic Drug Ads

    Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD
    During the 1960s and '70s, the iconography of ads for antipsychotic drugs changed from former depictions of docile white women patients to depictions of hostile black men, reflecting transformations in how American culture viewed race and mental illness.
    Virtual Mentor. 2012;14(6):494-502. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2012.14.6.imhl1-1206.