Pain treatment is different for white and black patients in the United States. One shows black patients were 40% less likely to get medication to ease acute pain than white patients in the emergency room. Why does this happen?
A of University of Virginia medical students suggests that the reason is 鈥� at least in part 鈥� racial bias. Researchers discovered a high number of white medical students and residents with inaccurate ideas about the biological differences between black and white people. These false beliefs are rooted in centuries-old ideas from physicians about biological differences in race.
Host Frank Stasio learns about where these ideas took root from , the author of 鈥�.鈥� She is also an assistant professor in the department of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Hogarth will be at the Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Thursday, Feb. 13 at 5 p.m. to talk about her work and to open a new exhibition at the Wilson Library called 鈥�.鈥� Stasio also talks to about that exhibition and what materials will be on display. Lucas is the technical services archivist for UNC-Chapel Hill. The exhibition will be up from Thursday, Feb. 13 to Sunday, April 19.
