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Health Care & Hospital Law,
Books

Feb. 20, 2016

Uncovering the racial disparities in American health care

In her new book, law professor Dayna Bowen Matthew explores the roots of the disparities that remain in the American health care system and offers a plan to regulate implicit biases and eliminate the inequalities they cause.

Dayna Bowen Matthew

University of Colorado Law School

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For the past 30 years, medical doctors, social scientists, psychologists, policy analysts, jurists, and a wide spectrum of health care providers have been studying and discussing health inequality in America. Meanwhile, by one estimate, 83,570 minority patients die annually due to health care disparities. In her book "Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care" (NYU Press 2015), law professor Dayna Bowen Matthew explores the ro...

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