Know Your History: A Resource Guide to Uncovering and Uprooting Medical Violence
Title: Know Your History: A Resource Guide to Uncovering and Uprooting Medical Violence
Dr. Camara Jones Explains the Cliff of Good Health
Everyone should have the opportunity to achieve good health. But, as Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones explains through her cliff analogy, that’s often not the case. We can reduce health disparities and better connect people to high-quality medical care, but to…
Reclaiming Power And Place
The National Inquiry’s Final Report reveals that persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root cause behind Canada’s staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people. The two volume report calls for…
Understanding Disability Bias in Medicine
Bias against persons with disabilities is longstanding, notes John Moore, CEO/Executive Director of the Ohio Department of Deaf Services. Starting with being called a “retard” in his high school, where he was the only deaf student in his class, Moore…
Are You My Doctor? Toward A World Where A Physician In A Wheelchair Is No Big Deal
Several years ago, while in my second year of medical residency, I was in my wheelchair in line at our hospital cafeteria. A man who came behind me gave me a warm look. After a few moments, he looked down…
Race, Metaphor, And Myth In Academic Medicine
VANCOUVER—In the midst of fears about an awful illness, tensions rise. Fear and hatred are directed at those of Chinese descent trying to build a life on Canada’s West Coast.
Colour Coded Health Care
Sheryl Nestel received her PhD from the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto where she taught between 2000-2011. She is the author of numerous journal articles on…
Allegories on race and racism | Camara Jones | TEDxEmory
VANCOUVER—In the midst of fears about an awful illness, tensions rise. Fear and hatred are directed at those of Chinese descent trying to build a life on Canada’s West Coast.