One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black AmericansWhen Damon Tweedy begins medical school,he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working-class background will become largely irrelevant. Instead, he finds that he has joined a new world where race is front and center. The reci...
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Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine |
| Author |
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Damon Tweedy |
| Format |
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Hardcover - 304 pages |
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Non Fiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, Race, Medical, Biography Memoir, Health, Medicine |
| ISBN |
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1250044634 |
At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac—here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author’s rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from whites and the black generality while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born in upper-crust...
