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Anti-Racism and Medicine

This guide is an introduction to resources on Anti-Racism and Medicine from the MCPHS Libraries and other online sources
On this page you'll find anti-racism resources that focus on the medical field.  We have divided up our resources on this topic by format--on this page you can find books that we recommend from the MCPHS Libraries, as well as books to check out from your public library. 

Important Note

On this guide we have included some resources that we recommend, but are not available at MCPHS.  We have set up the link for these items to redirect to WorldCat so you can find it at your local library!  

Books Available From the MCPHS Libraries

Black and Blue
Body and Soul
Breathing Race into the Machine
Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional
Medical Bondage
Under the Skin
Reproductive Justice
Just Medicine
Fatal Invention
Framing the Dialogue on Race and Ethnicity to Advance Health Equity
Infectious Fear
The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Mapping Race
Medical Apartheid
Precarious Prescriptions
Race, Ethnicity, and Health
Seeing Patients
Examinng Tuskegee
Strategies for Deconstructing Racism in the Health and Human Services
Unequal Treatment
Inclusion eBook
Pain eBook
Under the Strain of Color eBook
How Far Have We Come in Reducing Health Disparities? eBook
Communities in Action eBook
Health Disparities, Diversity, and Inclusion eBook
Reproducing Race eBook
People's Science
An American Crisis
Race in a Bottle
An American Health Dilemma
The Power to Heal
Impact of Demographics on Health and Healthcare
Leveraging Culture to Address Health Inequalities
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired
Issues in Health and Health Care Related to Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, SES and Gender
Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
On Race and Medicine: Insider Perspectives
Legacy

Books to Check Out From Your Local Library

Killing the Black Body
Black Man in a White Coat
Dying in the City of the Blues
Reproductive Injustice
The Racial Divide in American Medicine
Dying of Whiteness
Health Disparities in the United States
Supbrime Health
The Death Gap
Flatlining
The Political Determinants of Health
Blood Sugar
The Health Gap
Inequality and African-American Health
Inflamed
Black Fatigue
Adverse Events
Sickening
The Social Life of DNA
To Make the Wounded Whole
A Terrible Thing to Waste
Twice As Hard
Unequal Cities
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