Twin Cities Medical Society medical student leader Megan Lucas compiled the following list of resources related to the use of race in medical decision-making, following our LIVE, virtual Race in Medicine CME conversation in August.
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Videos/Podcasts
- “The Problem with Race-Based Medicine,” TedTalk by Dorothy Roberts, JD
- “Towards the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine: Transforming Clinical Education, Research, and Practice,” Facebook LIVE Community Dialogue
- “1619” podcast (New York Times)
- “The Praxis” podcast (Host: Edwin Lindo, JD, University of Washington)
- “Not Built for Us” podcast (Host: Angela Zhang)
Articles/Reports
- “Toward the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine: Transforming Clinical Education, Research, and Practice,” report by the Abolishing Biological Race in Medicine Working Group of the Freedom School for Intersectional Medicine and Health Justice
- “What Role Should Race Play in Medicine?” (Jennifer Tsai, MD, MEd, Scientific American)
- “UW Medicine to Exclude Race From Calculation of eGFR” (University of Washington Department of Medicine)
- “Precision in GFR Reporting: Let’s Stop Playing the Race Card” (Vanessa Grubbs, MD, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology)
- “The Case for Removing Race From the American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical Practice Guideline for Urinary Tract Infections in Infants and Young Children With Fever” (Rachel Kowalsky, MD, MPH, et al., JAMA Pediatrics)
- “Myths About Physical Racial Differences Were Used to Justify Slavery–and Are Still Believed by Doctors Today” (Part of the New York Times‘ “The 1619 Project”)
- “Institutional Racism in Medicine: It’s Time for Changes” (Charles Crutchfield, III, MD, et al., Minnesota Physician)
- “Why We Care About How Race Is Used in Medical Research, Practice and Clinical Decision-Making, and Why You Should, Too” (Ebiere Okah, MD, and Andrea Westby, MD, Minnesota Family Physician)
Books
- “Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics” (Lundy Braun, PhD)
- “Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century” (Dorothy Roberts, JD)
- “Superior: The Return of Race Science” (Angela Saini)
- “So You Want to Talk About Race” (Ijeoma Oluo)
