“I Want a Doctor Who Looks Like Me!”: Managing Race-Based Patient Requests
The similar-to-me effect is a cognitive bias related to the idea that people have a preference for those that are similar – look, act and think like us. Drs.
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Discrimination
Environmental justice: How physical, social, and structural surroundings impact health
The environment—everything from the water we drink to the conditions in which we live—impacts health. Environmental justice is a broad term or movement that at
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Intelligence and genetic essentialism
In 1869, Francis Galton reasoned that if human intellect was determined to be hereditary, then it “would be quite practicable to produce a highly-gifted race
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