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Human rights watch investigating pain treatment
Racial disparities in pain treatment
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/us/how-race-plays-a-role-in-patients-pain-treatment.html
This article is especially interesting because (in my assessment) b/c POC are conditioned to accept and even justify inadequate/discriminatory treatment they receive. This is seen frequently w/people who are socialized female, disabled, economically oppressed, etc. also.
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers by Joanna Bourke - chapter 4 is about religious influences, which often encourage less pain treatment “under classes“
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/14/story-pain-joanna-bourke-review-prayer-painkillers
(Also, here is an interesting review of the book https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/14/story-pain-joanna-bourke-review-prayer-painkillers)
And one of my “they-roes” (As my friend Mordecai coined, alternative to “shero” or “hero“), Keith Wailoo, http://www.keithwailoo.com Author of Pain: A Political History and also of Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health