Privilege in the Medical Academy

A Feminist Examines Gender, Race, and Power

Author: Delese Wear
ISBN: 0807762903

By approaching the training of our physicians from the enlightening perspective of medical humanities, Delese Wear shows us how the Western paradigm of "scientific objectivity" reinforces cultural biases based on gender, race, class, and sexual orientation. But when wise teachers use literature and art to decode the silences and scripts of traditional medical education, our doctors (who record and tell our stories to one another in our medical records) can learn to bring into their practices the healing values of imagination, empathy, and social justice.

Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publish Date: 1997-01-01

Subjects: Medical / Education & Training

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Medicine)