Imagining the Future of Medicine through a Lens of Prejudice: Lessons from the American Past

Authors

Neil Nusbaum, University of Illinois College of Medicine at RockfordFollow

Keywords

Imagining the Future of Medicine; History of Medicine; United States

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

Abstract

Many healthcare management decisions today, such as those about facility construction, will have impact even decades beyond the traditional 5 or 10 year planning horizon. In order to get some idea of the possibilities and challenges of today’s long range forecasts in healthcare, it is instructive to look at how well similar efforts fared a century ago. Looking in retrospect now, the task of prognostication then was impeded in part by a failure of vision due to prejudicial attitudes of the era.

Recommended Citation

Nusbaum, Neil (2020) "Imagining the Future of Medicine through a Lens of Prejudice: Lessons from the American Past," Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice: Vol. 13: Iss. 2, Article 7.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/jhdrp/vol13/iss2/7