Discrimination against Negroes in Hospitals
- 29 October 1964
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 271 (18) , 940-943
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196410292711806
Abstract
GUNNAR Myrdahl, in The American Dilemma, wrote, "A genuine and irreconcilable conflict exists between two sets of irreconcilable ideas: on the one hand, the principle of equal rights and fundamental equality of all Americans: and on the other hand race prejudice and discrimination which deny equal opportunity to members of certain racial and ethnic groups."Although more subtle and less publicized than discrimination in other social and economic areas, this moral conflict has spread to all areas of medicine, including hospitals.In the days of slavery, there was no discrimination against Negroes in hospitals for the simple reason that there . . .Keywords
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- Reservoirs of CompassionNew England Journal of Medicine, 1962