Health Equity and Health Disparities
A guide to health equity and health disparities research.
KUMC Books/eBooks
Black Man in a White Coat by Call Number: WZ 100 T971b 2015 (Clendening 1020B)ISBN: 9781250044631Publication Date: 2015Black Man in a White Coat examines the complex ways in which both black doctors and patients must navigate the difficult and often contradictory terrain of race and medicine.
Bridging Silos by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780262354981Publication Date: 2019In Bridging Silos, Katrina Smith Korfmacher examines ways that communities can collaborate across systems and sectors to address environmental health disparities, with in-depth studies of three efforts to address long-standing environmental health issues.
Howard Hiatt by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780262349338Publication Date: 2018The seven-decade career of Howard Hiatt, a pioneer in public health, advocate for global health and health equity, a mentor to generations of healthcare leaders.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Call Number: WO 690 S628i 2010ISBN: 1400052173Publication Date: 2010The story of the Lacks family is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.
Just Medicine by Call Number: W 76 M437j 2015ISBN: 9781479896738Publication Date: 2015In 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.
Living and Dying in Brick City by Call Number: WX 215 S264L 2013Publication Date: 2014Personal exploration of the healthcare crisis facing inner-city communities. Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact in high school to become doctors. Dr. Davis looks at the healthcare crisis in the inner city from a rare perspective: as a doctor who works on the front line of emergency medical care in the community where he grew up, and as a member of that community who has faced the same challenges as the people he treats every day.
Medical Apartheid by Call Number: W 20.55 H9 W317m 2006Publication Date: 2008The first comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. This book reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and makes possible, for the first time, an understanding of the roots of the African American health deficit.
Social Injustice and Public Health by Call Number: WA 31 S6779 2006 (Clendening 1020B)ISBN: 9780195384062Publication Date: 2009
Trans Medicine by Call Number: WZ 80.5.S4 S562t 2021 (Clendening 1020B)ISBN: 9781479899371Publication Date: 2021-06-15Trans Medicine offers a rare opportunity to understand how providers make decisions given widespread uncertainty while facing challenges to their expertise. In the process of negotiating these challenges in the "treatment" of gender, providers have acquired authority not only in this medical area, but over gender itself.
Free Online Textbooks (OERs) & OCED Book Program
- 2SLGBTQ+ HealthcareLGBTQ+ Healthcare by Selinda Berg, Scott R. Cowan, and Ashlyne O’Neil, 2022, is licensed under a CC-BY-NC-SA license. The content presented here was created by and in collaboration with members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community as a starting point for medical students to consider how they can build an inclusive practice.
- Northern and Indigenous Health and Health CareCreative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY NC-4.0) license. Addresses a fundamental gap in nursing and health science education: a lack of textbooks or other resources that are focused on northern and Indigenous health care.
- OCED Book Program--Past BooksEach year, the Office of Cultural Enhancement and Diversity provides programming around a book relating to the intersection of culture and medicine.
KUMC's Turning the Page Past Books
Dying of Whiteness by Call Number: WA 300 .AM8 M596d 2019 (Clendening 1020B)Publication Date: 2019Discussed Spring 2023
The Sum of Us by Call Number: Clendening 1020B: E 185.8 M145s 2021Publication Date: 2021Discussed Spring 2022
A Terrible Thing to Waste by Call Number: Clendening 1020B; GE 230 W318t 2019Publication Date: 2019Discussed Fall 2021
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Call Number: E 185.625 T38 1997Publication Date: 1997Discussed Spring 2021
