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Annabel Sowemimo’s timely and urgent new book exposes racism in medicine and signals a “moment of reckoning,” writes Sophie Harman
Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare is a new book by Annabel Sowemimo,1 a sexual and reproductive health registrar and reproductive justice activist. Motivated by what was missing from her medical and postgraduate healthcare training and by the questions asked in her inboxes and at clinics, Sowemimo has written an accessible and urgent call to action to tackle racism and racial inequalities in the healthcare system. This timely book is published as the UK continues to wrangle with its place in the world, its imperial past, and the resulting systemic racism in healthcare and society, exemplified by appalling rates of maternal mortality in black women.
The power of Divided is twofold. First, it sees and …
A new podcast and article series in The BMJ examines the legacy of colonialism and the progress needed to make meaningful change
There is growing demand for decolonisation, described recently by Annabel Sowemimo, author of Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare , as a desire to examine how systems of race, class, and gender have been shaped by colonial history and how we move to establish a more equitable society.1 Across the UK and Europe, for example, newspapers, museums, charities, universities, and other organisations are reckoning with their pasts born of European colonialism that sought to invade, control, extract resources, and impose western views on much of the rest of the world. Today’s world is shaped by this colonialism the wealth of high income countries was generated by land theft and slavery, establishing a legacy of power and exploitation that persists to this day. Decolonisation is thus not just about former colonies gaining political ind
Orwell Prize nominated writer on decolonising medicine, being inspired by her father and her experiences working as a sexual and reproductive health registrar in the NHS
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