‘I Can’t Breathe’: Racism in Medical Technology
Our ability to breathe is shaped by the laws and politics that govern the use of technologies, and that validate racialized assumptions about people.
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Rather than simply recognizing the existence of social determinants of health, we must do the hard work to create and re-create systems.
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Well-being and ill-being can be measured in many ways, but health is a fundamental part of the picture and is inextricably intertwined with justice.
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Healing processes can operationalize the three components of the health justice framework to address the trauma of medical racism.
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COVID Long Haulers and patient advocates for the chronically ill are forcing an unprecedented recognition for these chronic complex diseases.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has given renewed importance and urgency to the need for racial and gender diversity in clinical trials.
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In just three sentences, Justice Holmes delivers a message that has lasted through today: some lives matter more than others.
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Medical neocolonialism does not exist in a vacuum. It is tied to the presumed expendability of Black life.
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African Americans know, perhaps the most, what it means to be the first to be heavily recruited yet neglected by biomedicine.
