Health Humanities and Racism:

The field of health humanities also needs to wrestle with racism, while at the same time it attempts to help the health professions begin to reckon with racism.

Balhara KS, Irvin N. “The Guts to Really Look at It”—Medicine and Race in Robert Colescott’s Emergency RoomJAMA 2021, 325(2): 113–115. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.20888.

Banner O. Structural Racism and Practices of Reading in the Medical HumanitiesLiterature and Medicine 2016, 34(1): 25–52. doi: 10.1353/lm.2016.0001.

Khorana AA. Innocence in America—Reading James Baldwin in 2020JAMA 2021, 325(5): 418–419. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.22102.

Klugman C. TV Show Depicts Racism in MedicineThe Hastings Center, February 19, 2021.

Wailoo K. Historical Aspects of Race and Medicine: The Case of J. Marion SimsJAMA 2018, 320(15): 1529–1530. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.11944.