Our Project: Reflections
Reflections Episode 1
“Reflections Episode” – a 35 minute discussion which highlights the work and perspective of Keith Wailoo, PhD, Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. We will talk about his presentation “Whose Pain Matters: Reflections on Race, Social J
“Whose Pain Matters: Reflections on Race, Social Justice and COVID-19: Revealed Inequities” which engages ethics, policy and practice and highlights values and concepts at the core of our profession.
Resources & Links Episode 1
Gaither et al. (2018) Disparities in Discontinuation of Long Term Opioid Therapy Following Illicit Drug Use among Black and White Patients. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.192(1):371-376
Burgess D. J. (2011). “Addressing racial healthcare disparities: how can we shift the focus from patients to providers?” Journal of General Internal Medicine, 26(8), 828–830.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-011-1748-z
Hoffman, K. M., Trawalter, S., Axt, J. R., & Oliver, M. N. (2016). Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(16), 4296–4301. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516047113
Byrne, J. LCSW, CADC, Clancy, K. MSW, and Ciszewski, I. LCSW (August 2020)Should the Location of a Patient’s Home Inform Physicians’ Opioid Prescription Practices. Retrieved from https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/should-location-patients-home-inform-physicians-opioid-prescription-practices/2020-08
Chapman, E. N., Kaatz, A., & Carnes, M. (2013). Physicians and Implicit Bias: How Doctors May Unwittingly Perpetuate Health Care Disparities. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 28(11), 1504–1510https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-013-2441-1
Warrach, Haider. (July 11, 2020). Racial disparities seen in how doctors treat pain, even among children. Washington Post. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/racial-disparities-seen-in-how-doctors-treat-pain-even-among-children/2020/07/10/265e77d6-b626-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html
Washington, H. A. (2006). Medical apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present (1st ed.). Doubleday.
Wailoo, K. (2014). Pain : a political history. Johns Hopkins University Press.