On unearned privilege in clinical practice. (February 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Little, John D
• Is Part Of: Australasian psychiatry. Volume 29:Number 1(2021)
• Page Start: 69
• Page End: 71
• Publication Date: 2021-02
• Subjects: on being white -- white privilege -- unearned privilege; Psychiatry -- Australasia -- Periodicals; Psychiatry -- Periodicals; 616.89005
• DOI: 10.1177/1039856220956469
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1039-8562

Abstract

Objective: To explore what it might mean to be a white psychiatrist working in a white culture. Conclusions: Inequalities and power imbalances are maintained by person-blaming and the invisibility of structural inequality. Opportunities to recognise the effects of being privileged and working within a medical culture that compounds such inequality may be squandered without curiosity and action.