Racialization bodies: racialized

The same type of reaction can result from overt or covert racial prejudice. A large body of research supports the idea that ethnic-minority clients frequendy receive qualitatively worse care and quantitatively less attention from health care professionals in clinics and hospital. Sometimes a professional is not even aware of treating ethnic-minority clients differently than White clients. Again, counselors and therapists need to observe their own clinical behavior and note when they may be treating clients differently to identify whether there is a racial pattern to that trend. Another way to check on biases is to observe your personal behavior outside the office If you are engaging in biased behavior outside work, you likely will be engaging in biased behavior while at work, even if you attempt not to be. 

Race is a palimpsest, a tablet whose most recent inscriptions only imperfectly cover those that had come before, and whose inscriptions can never be regarded as final. Contradictory racial identities come to coexist at the same moment in the same body in unstable combinations, as the specific histories that generated them linger in various cultural forms or in the social and political relationships that are their legacies. Thus it was, for instance, that Henry James drew his fateful racial line of exclusion both within and around Europe in his quest for a proper bride for the American No Irish need apply, We had better confine ourselves to Europe. ... 

Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press, 1996), p. 71 Laura Doyle, Bordering on the Body The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture (New York Oxford, 1994), pp. 27,10-34 Joel Williamson, A Rage for Order Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (New York Oxford, 1986). 

The recombinant EPO and hGH produced are almost replicas of those that occur naturally in our body. Hence, it is very difficult to detect these banned substances if taken by athletes. Another difficulty is the need to develop reliable and sensitive test methods that take into account differences of these substances in athletes of different racial groups. 

The culprit is a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori which likes to set up housekeeping in the stomach and the duodenum, the area that joins the stomach to the small intestine. It s choosey about its neighborhood and won t live in the small or large intestine—probably a racial thing. (Would you want to live with billions of E coli bacteria ) H pylori has a spiral shape and a screw-like motion that enables it to burrow into the mucous gel of the stomach and set up residence on the stomach lining. The body cannot throw off the invader, so you have it for life if it s not treated. 

Renal carcinoma continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide (Table 16.12). Last year, approximately 54,000 new renal tumor patients were diagnosed and 13,000 deaths were ascribed to renal cancer in the United States. Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the seventh most common neoplasm in American males and the ninth most common neoplasm in females. There is a twofold to threefold male predominance of RCC incidence but no obvious racial predilection. Recognized risk factors include tobacco smoking, obesity (body mass index >29 may double the risk of RCC) and acquired or hereditary polycystic diseases. The classic clinical presentation symptom triad of flank pain, hematuria, and palpable mass is no longer the... 

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