Complementary and Disparate: Conceptualising Female and Male Genital Cutting in Northern Tanzania
Mary-Anne Victoria Decatur, PhD dissertation, U of London 2023.
Yes, I do read your dissertations!
"It is the normal, functioning cells of all foreskins that are deemed dangerous. And yet it is specifically Black male bodies that are being constructed as promiscuous sources of infection in need of medical intervention."
"A Brief History of Racism in Medicine & Current Health Disparities” Grand Rounds tomorrow at noon Central, open to the public via Zoom! No registration required:
Hospitals and doctors/nurses hiding behind 'legal liability' as they continue to deny Black people healthcare is forever going to earn a hard side eye from me.
The fact that 'race' is a social construct w zero basis in fact/science does NOT mean that it has zero impact. We can stop talking about race when being the 'wrong one' stops killing people & when supposedly 'color-blind' policies stop bulwarking #WhiteSupremacy & #MedicalRacism
Should Doctors Wear Body Cameras?
"One way of achieving accountability in the healthcare context may be to mandate that healthcare providers wear body cameras, as is increasingly being required in policing. It could be argued that body cam recordings would make providers more accountable."
"More people have died of Covid in America, as a percentage or in absolute terms, than any other developed country in the world.
Why? Because Trump and his Republican enablers and co-conspirators were just fine with getting the economy back on track to win an election over the bodies of dead Black and Hispanic people, particularly when they could blame it on Democratic Blue-state governors."
Did Trump let Americans die purely for political purposes?
@georgetakei
Thank you! Just turned 64 & am so grateful for good health & strength that enables me to do lots of things co-workers half my age don't want to try. That's a gift AND a privilege I want to leverage to help people less able.
#Capitalist mag buries the lede all the way down in the final paragraph in their article about 'excess death' in the US 🤮🙄
"[Factors] include racial and economic inequalities, which combined with a weaker social security net and lack of health care access for all may help explain larger health and death disparities compared to European countries." #MedicareForAll #MedicalRacism #Juneteenth