Uncertain Suffering

Author: Carolyn Rouse
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0520259122
Category: Medical

Uncertain Suffering: Racial Health Care Disparities and Sickle Cell Disease

On average, black Americans are sicker and die earlier than white Americans. Download Uncertain Suffering medical books for free.
Uncertain Suffering provides a richly nuanced examination of what this fact means for health care in the United States through the lens of sickle cell anemia, a disease that primarily affects blacks. In a wide ranging analysis that moves from individual patient cases to the compassionate yet distanced professionalism of health care specialists to the level of national policy, Carolyn Moxley Rouse uncovers the cultural assumptions that shape the quality and delivery of care for sickle cell patients. She reveals a clinical world fraught with uncertainties over how to treat black patients given resource limitations and ambivalence. Her book is a compelling look Get Uncertain Suffering our bestseller medical books.

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