AAAS 90.13 Black Medicine: Racist Legacies and Critical Interventions

As a phrase, “Black Medicine” marks the numerous ways that medicine (as a field, practice, and knowledge base) and Blackness (as a race of people, an aesthetic, a symbol) have always been interconnected in American society. Black Medicine, on the one hand, notes the abuse of Black people’s bodies in pursuit of medical knowledge and technological advancement. In this regard, all medicine is Black, as all medicine exists alongside race and power. On the other hand, Black Medicine also expresses forward-looking interventions in medicine that are necessarily antiracist and anti-ableist. The history of medicine in the United States deserves to be studied for its missteps and breakthroughs, but the future of medicine deserves to be written differently. 

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:SOC; WCult:CI

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Department-Specific Course Categories

African and African-American Studies