De-centring medical expertise means fostering skillsets that reduce disparities in health outcomes. Medical expertise alone is great for those with social privilege, but not enough for the rest.
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Racism affects health and often leads to early death. We now know in greater and more alarming detail how this happens.
A leading sociologist explains how different dimensions of humanity produce different kinds of inequality - and what that does to the least equal in society.
Police killings of black men gain widespread attention, but black men’s life-and-death issues are ignored on a daily basis, a physician who studies health gaps explains.
African American youth are at increased risk for death by suicide. An expert explains why it’s important to better understand the effects of racism, bullying and alienation on black youth.
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Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
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Professor emeritus of Sociology, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Psychology, University of Houston
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Family Physician, Toronto; Associate Professor, University of Toronto, University of Toronto