{"product_id":"legacy-a-black-physician-reckons-with-racism-in-medicine-9780593491300","title":"Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine","description":"\u003cb\u003eAN INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eONE OF TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN GLOBAL HEALTH \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This book is more than a memoir--it also serves as a call to action to create a more equitable healthcare system for patients of color, particularly Black women.\" --\u003ci\u003eEssence\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLegacy\u003c\/i\u003e is both a compelling memoir and an edifying analysis of the inequities in the way we deliver healthcare in America. Uch? Blackstock is a force of nature.\" --Abraham Verghese, MD \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[An] extraordinary family story.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Required reading for all medical students.\" --Gayle King, \u003ci\u003eCBS Mornings\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGrowing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uch? Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an organization of Black women physicians, and for years the girls watched these fiercely intelligent women in white coats tend to their patients and neighbors, host community health fairs, cure ills, and save lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat Dr. Uch? Blackstock did not understand as a child--or learn about at Harvard Medical School, where she and her sister had followed in their mother's footsteps, making them the first Black mother-daughter legacies from the school--were the profound and long-standing systemic inequities that mean just 2 percent of all U.S. physicians today are Black women; the racist practices and policies that ensure Black Americans have far worse health outcomes than any other group in the country; and the flawed system that endangers the well-being of communities like theirs. As an ER physician, and later as a professor in academic medicine, Dr. Blackstock became profoundly aware of the systemic barriers that Black patients and physicians continue to face. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLegacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a journey through the critical intersection of racism and healthcare. At once a searing indictment of our health-care system, a generational family memoir, and a call to action, \u003ci\u003eLegacy\u003c\/i\u003e is Dr. Blackstock's odyssey from child to medical student to practicing physician--to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Uch Blackstock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.5lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593491300","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43311279341705,"sku":"9780593491300","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_f996e3a4-c320-41b6-bfef-72a03a7f57a9.jpg?v=1738050641","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/legacy-a-black-physician-reckons-with-racism-in-medicine-9780593491300","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}