medical anthropologist & future family physician here for migrant health justice & race-conscious medicine. mamá x2, pro-🌱, 🇮🇹🇨🇱🌈, she/her, views mine
Aug 6, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Not @AmerAcadPeds conflating race & genetic ancestry, arguing that the latter predicts risk of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, and misusing the term “race-conscious medicine” without citing the trainee women of color @MarieVP_HU@tsaiduck77 who coined it #PedsTwitter#MedTwitter 1/
To be clear, race-conscious medicine is about #RACISM in medicine. The idea originates in critical race theory and legal+education policy with the aim of exposing the ways these allegedly neutral institutions—including medicine!—propagate racism. doi.org/10.1016/S0140-…
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