Medicine's Shadowside: Revisiting Clinical Iatrogenesis.

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Medicine's Shadowside: Revisiting Clinical Iatrogenesis.

September 8, 2021

Varley E, Varma S, eds. Anthropol Med. 2021;28(2);141-278.

Implicit biases are rooted in culture and context. This special issue examines a broad range of influences and impacts of medical harm enabled by societal acceptance of inequalities both within medicine and beyond it.

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