Author

Hossain, Anushay

Place of Publication

New York

Publisher

Tiller Press

Publication Date

2021

Physical Description

279pp

Subjects

Anti-Racism

Diversity

Abstract

When Anushay Hossain became pregnant in the US, she was so relieved. Growing up in Bangladesh in the 1980s, where the concept of women?s healthcare hardly existed, she understood how lucky she was to access the best in the world. But she couldn?t have been more wrong. Things started to go awry from the minute she stepped in the hospital, and after thirty hours of labor (two of which she spent pushing), Hossain?s epidural slipped. Her pain was so severe that she ran a fever of 104 degrees, and as she shook and trembled uncontrollably, the doctors finally performed an emergency C-section.

Giving birth in the richest country on earth, Hossain never imagined she could die in labor. But she almost did. The experience put her on a journey to explore, understand, and share how women?especially women of color?are dismissed to death by systemic sexism in American healthcare.

Following in the footsteps of feminist manifestos such as The Feminine Mystique and Rage Becomes Her, The Pain Gap is an eye-opening and stirring call to arms that encourages women to flip their ?hysteria complex? on its head and use it to revolutionize women?s healthcare. This book tells the story of Hossain?s experiences?from growing up in South Asia surrounded by staggering maternal mortality rates to lobbying for global health legislation on Capitol Hill to nearly becoming a statistic herself. Along the way, she realized that a little fury might be just what the doctor ordered.

Meticulously researched and deeply reported, this book explores real women?s traumatic experiences with America?s healthcare system?and empowers everyone to use their experiences to bring about the healthcare revolution women need.

ISBN

9781-9821-77775

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

REF NR 100 HOS 2021

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Author

Hamad, Ruby

Place of Publication

New York

Publisher

Catapult

Publication Date

2020

Physical Description

284pp

Subjects

Anti-Racism

Diversity

Abstract

Called ?powerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, this explosive book of history and cultural criticism reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women, and women of color.

Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep ?ownership? of their slaves, through the centuries of colonialism, when they offered a soft face for brutal tactics, to the modern workplace, White Tears/Brown Scars tells a charged story of white women?s active participation in campaigns of oppression. It offers a long overdue validation of the experiences of women of color.

Discussing subjects as varied as The Hunger Games, Alexandria Ocasio?Cortez, the viral BBQ Becky video, and 19th century lynchings of Mexicans in the American Southwest, Ruby Hamad undertakes a new investigation of gender and race. She shows how the division between innocent white women and racialized, sexualized women of color was created, and why this division is crucial to confront.

Along the way, there are revelatory responses to questions like: Why are white men not troubled by sexual assault on women? (See Christine Blasey Ford.) With rigor and precision, Hamad builds a powerful argument about the legacy of white superiority that we are socialized within, a reality that we must apprehend in order to fight.

ISBN

9781-948226-745

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

REF NR 100 HAM 2020

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Author

St. Pierre, Michael

Buerschaper, Cornelius

Simon, Robert

Edition

2nd Ed.

Place of Publication

Berlin, Germany

Publisher

Springer-Verlag

Publication Date

2011

Physical Description

Hardcover: 346 pages

Subject

Emergency Care Services. Emergency Room. ER

Emergency Medicine

Safety

Abstract

Critical situations in acute and emergency care are one of the great clinical challenges because of the uncertainty, high stakes, time pressure, and stress that are involved. This book provides a comprehensive outline of all the human factors issues relevant to patient safety during acute care. Following an initial section discussing the basic principles of human behavior and decision making, the various influences on safe patient care are discussed in depth. These are divided into three interacting groups: individual factors, team factors, and organizational factors. Relevant psychological theories are carefully examined, and case studies and descriptions of proven strategies help to ground these theories in daily practice. This newly revised edition will help both physicians and non-physicians to better understand the principles of human behavior and decision making in critical situations and thus to provide safer treatment.

ISBN

9783642196997

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

REF EB 800 STP 2011

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Author

Roberts, James

Custalow, Catherine

Thomsen, Todd

Hedges, Jerris

Edition

6th ed.

Place of Publication

Philadelphia, PA

Publisher

Elsevier Saunders

Publication Date

2014

Subject

Emergency Medicine

Emergency Care Services. Emergency Room. ER

UBC MD Undergrad

Abstract

Covers the equipment, devices, drug therapies, and techniques you need to know for effective practice of emergency medicine.

ISBN

9781455706068

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

REF EB 800 ROB 2014

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