Abstract
Sally Satel's PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine constitutes an attempt to weaken the influence of egalitarian and antiracist scholarship in contemporary public health. This book has been widely distributed and has received many positive reviews in academia and the general press. Surprisingly, Satel has enlisted the direct or indirect support of prominent public health academics. The authors' critical review of this book indicates that Satel uses a combination of tactics to convince the reader of the danger involved in egalitarian public health efforts. Among them are insults, traditional "red baiting" tactics, "triangulation," exaggeration, emotionally charged examples, omissions, and a strong appeal to individual responsibility to explain social inequalities in health. PC, M.D. reveals a scientific and ideological conflict over the determinants of health in populations that takes place within and outside the public health discipline. Efforts such as PC, M.D. suggest that social epidemiologists and other egalitarian public health scholars are having some impact in shaping how the public views health disparities.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-17 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | International Journal of Health Services |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2002 Mar 19 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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Anti-egalitarianism, legitimizing myths, racism, and "neo-McCarthyism" in social epidemiology and public health : A review of Sally Satel's PC, M.D. / Muntaner, Carles; Gomez, Marisela B.
In: International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 32, No. 1, 19.03.2002, p. 1-17.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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