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Urban Bioethics: A Call for the Prestige

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2019

NIA JOHNSON  and
LANCE WAHLERT
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Abstract:

Many teaching hospitals in the United States were founded on philanthropic principles and aimed to aid the urban poor and underserved. However, as times have changed, there has been a divide created between the urban poor and teaching hospitals. There is a plethora of reasons why this is the case. This paper will specifically focus on the histories of ten hospitals and medical schools and the effect that white flight, segregation, elitism, and marginalization had on healthcare institutions all over the United States. It will call for a reexamination of the values of Ivy League and Ivy Plus teaching hospitals and medical schools and for them to take an intentional look into their communities.

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minority healthbioethicsurban bioethicshospitalsmedical anthropology
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , July 2019 , pp. 509 - 521
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2019 

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