The New England Journal of Medicine
- Topic: Race and Medicine
This collection reflects NEJM’s commitment to understanding and combating systemic racism as a public health and human rights crisis. - Case Studies in Social MedicineA series of articles highlighting the importance of social concepts and social context in clinical medicine.
Top Articles
- Addressing race, culture, and structural inequality in medical education: A guide for revising teaching casesKrishnan, A., et al. Academic Medicine, 2019.
- Advocating for anti-racist mental health policies with a focus on dismantling anti-Black racismAmerican Psychiatric Association, October 2021
- Calling out aversive racism in academic medicineChen, C.L., et. al., New England Journal of Medicine, 2021.
- Cultural competency in graduate medical education: A necessity for the minimization of disparities in healthcareGrewal US, Abduljabar H, & Sulaiman K. EClinicalMedicine, 2021.
- Deconstructing racism and bias in clinical medicineBook chapter from Schwartz's Textbook of Physical Examination, 2021.
- Eliminating race-based medicinePre-print. Wright, J.L. , et al. Pediatrics; 10.1542/peds.2022-057998, 2022
- Endarkening the episteme: Critical Race Theory and medical education scholarshipZaidi, et. al., Academic Medicine, November 2021.
- Fact versus fiction: Clinical decision support tools and the (mis)use of race117th Congress House Committee on Ways and Means, Majority Staff Report
- Fallacies and dangers of practicing race-based medicineReddick, B. American Family Physician. Online pre-publication, 2021.
- From race-based to race-conscious medicine: How anti-racist uprisings call us to actCerdena, J. et al, Academic Medicine, 2020.
- Hidden in plain sight: Reconsidering the use of race correction in clinical algorithmsVyas, D. S., et. al., NEJM, 2020.
- How to build an antiracist cardiovascular culture, community, and professionWilliams, N., et. al., J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021.
- Misrepresenting race: The role of medical schools in propagating physician biasAmutah, C., et. al., NEJM, March 2021
- On racism: A new standard for publishing on racial health inequitiesBoyd, R. W., et. al, Health Affairs blog, 2020.
- Race matters? Examining and rethinking race portrayal in preclinical medical educationTsai, J., et. al., Academic Medicine, 2016.
- Racial and ethnic disparities in obstetric and gynecologic careDynamed's excellent overview with embedded links to research.
- Toward the abolition of biological race in medicine: Transformng clinical medicineReport from Institute of Healing & Justice in Medicine, 2020.
Racism & Medicine: E-Books
Black & Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by ISBN: 9780520951846Publication Date: 2012
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the PresentISBN: 076792939XPublication Date: 2006
Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America by ISBN: 1452941629Publication Date: 2014
An American Health Dilemma: A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race: Beginnings To 1900ISBN: 1280202289Publication Date: 2012
Tedx Talk: Combatting Racism and Placeism in Medicine
JAMA: Structural Racism in Medicine and Health Care
TEDMed: The Problem with Race-Based Medicine
Society of General Internal Medicine: Tools to Inspire Antiracism
Harvard Radcliffe Institute's History Matters: Medical Racism from 1619 to the Present
Bowman Society Lecture: Race & Renal Function Calculations
Science in Medicine: Social and Biologic Determinants of Kidney Disease in African Americans
Reckoning with Race and Racism in Academic Medicine
- Johns Hopkins History of Medicine conferenceVideo links for presentations and panel discussions from the conference held May 2022.