Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare

Name: Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare
Author: Annabel Sowemimo
ISBN: 9781782839095

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Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare

Annabel Sowemimo

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Divided won the Bread & Roses Prize for Radical Publishing 2024, was shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize 2024, and was a finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2023. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are all too aware of the urgent health inequalities that plague our world. But these inequalities have always been urgent: modern medicine has a colonial and racist history. Here, in an essential and searing account, Annabel Sowemimo unravels the colonial roots of modern medicine. Tackling systemic racism, hidden histories and healthcare myths, Sowemimo recounts her own experiences as a doctor, patient and activist. Divided exposes the racial biases of medicine that affect our everyday lives and provides an illuminating - and incredibly necessary - insight into how our world works, and who it works for. This book will reshape how we see health and medicine - forever.

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