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Join Us on April 3rd
Race, Bioethics, and the Law
Session topic: Theories and Frameworks for Addressing Race, Bioethics, and the Law
w/ Nia Johnson
Thursday, April 3rd. 8:30 – 10:20 a.m. (Eastern)
The goal of this course is to teach students the shared history of racism in medicine and to empower them to address these disparities through bioethics and the law.
Explore Class Readings
- Christina Elizabeth Sharpe, In the wake: on Blackness and being (2016). – p. 8 to 24
- Saidiya V. Hartman & Assistant Professor Department of African American Studies Saidiya V. Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-making in Nineteenth-century America (1997).
– Chapter 6 - Khiara M. Bridges et al., Critical Race Theory & the Health Sciences Critical Race Theory & the Health Sciences: Introduction, 43 American Journal of Law & Medicine 179–182 (2017)