medical racism

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  3/15/2023
  

  "If they were White and Insured, Would they have Died?"

  by Udodiri R. Okwandu

  Texas's new maternal mortality report shows that historical patterns of medical racism are continuing, and the state plans to do little but blame Black women for the inadequate care they receive. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  7/28/2022
  

  Can America Apply Lessons from HIV/AIDS Crisis to Deal with Monkeypox?

  by Dan Royles

  Public health debates on monkeypox need to look at the history of health messaging about HIV-AIDS to focus on communities of gay men currently at risk while avoiding triggering homophobic responses and stigma. 

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• SOURCE: LitHub
  4/20/2022
  

  Historical Novelist Dolen Perkins-Valdez Shares Her Reading List for the History of Medical Racism

  "I wrote my newest novel Take My Hand because I believed there were too many people who did not know about the history of forced sterilizations among poor women of color."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  3/22/2021
  

  Medical Racism has Shaped U.S. Policies for Centuries

  by Dierdre Cooper Owens

  Medical racism is as old as America, and the COVID-19 pandemic has been no exception in terms of unequal vulnerability to disease. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  2/25/2021
  

  With Free Medical Clinics and Patient Advocacy, the Black Panthers Created a Legacy in Community Health That Still Exists Amid COVID-19

  by Olivia B. Waxman and Arpita Aneja

  Sociologist and social movement historian Alondra Nelson explains that Black Panther Party community action to provide health services grew out of a mistrust of mainstream health institutions' willingness to direct resources to the needs of poor Black communities, a mistrust that remains today. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/15/2020
  

  Years of Medical Abuse Make Black Americans Less Likely to Trust the Coronavirus Vaccine

  by Dan Royles

  There is a long and continuous history of mistreatment of African Americans by the American medical establishment. This legacy is responsible for many Black Americans' mistrust of a coronavirus vaccine. Good public health practice in vulnerable communities requires addressing this history.