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Decolonising your reading list

Recommended texts for Health and Medicine

Black health and wellbeing in Britain resource list from University of Bristol

Decolonizing the university: the challenge of deep cognitive justice / Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Science, Colonialism, and Indigenous Peoples: The Cultural Politics of Law and Knowledge / Laurelyn Whitt
Medicalizing blackness : making racial differences in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840 / Rana A. Hogarth
Fatal invention: how science, politics and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century/ Dorothy Roberts
Mind the gap handbook (2020)

Articles and reports

Lokugamage AU, Ahillan T, Pathberiya SDC. Decolonising ideas of healing in medical education, Journal of Medical Ethics (2020);46:265-272.
BMJ Special issue: Racism in Medicine
Curtis, E., Jones, R., Tipene-Leach, D. et al. Why cultural safety rather than cultural competency is required to achieve health equity: a literature review and recommended definition. International Journal for Equity in Health 18, 174 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-019-1082-3
BMA report: Differential attainment, making medical training fair for all (2017)

Useful tools for teaching

Garvey, Amy et al. “From Race to Racism: Teaching a Tool to Critically Appraise the Use of Race in Medical Research.” MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources vol. 18 11210. 24 Jan. 2022, doi:10.15766/mep_2374-8265.11210

Databases and search engines

Global Index Medicus This link opens in a new window
The Global Index Medicus (GIM) provides worldwide access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries. The main objective is to increase the visibility and usability of this important set of resources. The material is collated and aggregated by WHO Regional Office Libraries on a central search platform allowing retrieval of bibliographical and full text information.

Suggestions?

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