Stories
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Caring for our Disabled daughter in lockdown
Jane Holmes talks about the challenges of caring for her Disabled daughter while working and trying to stay safe during the pandemic.
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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How hospital care fails disabled bodies
Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.
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Medics, migration and the NHS
In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.
Catalogue
- Books
Healthism : health-status discrimination and the law / Jessica L. Roberts, Elizabeth Weeks.
Roberts, Jessica L.Date: [2019]- Books
Just medicine : a cure for racial inequality in American health care / Dayna Bowen Matthew.
Matthew, Dayna BowenDate: [2015]- Books
The power to heal : civil rights, Medicare, and the struggle to transform America's health care system / David Barton Smith.
Smith, David BartonDate: [2016]- Books
Body and soul : the Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination / Alondra Nelson.
Nelson, AlondraDate: [2011], ©2011- Books
Unequal treatment : confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care / Brian D. Smedley, Adrienne Y. Stith, and Alan R. Nelson, editors ; Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine.
Date: [2003], ©2003