Thread on the structural relationship of US doctors to labor & politics:
US physicians often feel exploited during training (because we are). But instead of our poor working conditions and education-related debt generating a sense of solidarity and shared politics with other 1/
Episode 3, Season 2 is out, and it's a big one! Our own Nicolle Strand, JD discusses #CriticalRaceTheory & academia and society as well as the need for scrutiny of research that reifies race as a proxy for genetic differences. https://t.co/AdBl0yj3zz @Nicolle_Strand#healthequity
Thanks @VoicesBioethics for publishing my piece about how white bioethicists need to do anti-racism work at their institutions.
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But researchers can't be forced into a false binary of autonomy versus justice - that which is just is a system which does not put those principles in tension in the first place (as co-author @MelissaSCreary explored in detail recently in @JLME_ASLME)
https://t.co/ZeRlCc1TQ5
Dr. Jennifer James @JenJamesPhD, Black feminist scholar, discusses how the carceral system produces and perpetuates serious and chronic illnesses and her research on forced sterilization in women’s prisons. #bioethics#racism#MassIncarceration https://t.co/xII46uQ52j
We are bringing everything you said tonight back to our work at @templemedschool diversity equity and inclusion office @nhannahjones and we are so excited to read the book. Tonight was amazing.
@PM_Alberti @TheIHI It's not really represented here, but my experience is that the overwhelming reason it's not a priority is that there is no incentive for it to be one.
And no mention in this statement that causes of racial difference in disease (*racial* difference) are almost always structural not biological. Worried a little bit that this will reify wrong assumptions. Anyone else get that whiff? @DorothyERoberts? 2/2
Potentially controversial hot take on this: https://t.co/vAY891miTE I'm worried about "race or ethnic group" being one category. Lack of clarity about the difference between those things. Lack of clarity about how we determine race in each trial. 1/2
@familyunequal I’d also love to see someone explain to Sam that there is really strong empirical evidence that racism IS what causes both of those phenomena that he claims can’t possibly be caused by racism. Real causal patterns. Why do we let him get away with this kind of argument structure?