Medical Journals Blind to Racism as Health Crisis, Critics Say

June 3, 2021

(New York Times) – The top editor of JAMA, the influential medical journal, stepped down on Tuesday amid a controversy over comments about racism made by a colleague on a journal podcast. But critics saw in the incident something more pernicious than a single misstep: a blindness to structural racism and the ways in which discrimination became embedded in medicine over generations. (Read Full Article)