Full Description
Decolonizing Medical Education, Research and Practice delves deeply into the complexities of transforming medicine by examining curricula, research, and clinical care. The book highlights how colonial legacies have shaped medical perspectives, resulting in persistent inequities and barriers to fair healthcare access. By critically analyzing the ways in which colonialism fostered false narratives about race and embedded systemic racism, the text underscores the urgent need to dismantle these longstanding biases. The first section offers a thorough critique of how Eurocentric traditions continue to influence medical education and practice, perpetuating discriminatory treatment and unequal outcomes.
The second part of the book shifts focus to solutions, featuring case studies and practical strategies for creating a more inclusive, culturally sensitive healthcare system. Written by leading global experts, it is a vital resource for medical students, postgraduates, clinicians, educators, researchers, and policymakers interested in meaningful change. The authors aim to inspire a new era in medicine that acknowledges past harms and works toward equitable healthcare for communities worldwide.
Contents
Part I: Challenges
1. From Slave Ships to Contemporary Clinics: The US Neo-Slavery Medical Complex
Joe R Feagin (Texas A&M University)
2. Intersections between Colonialism, Medical Racism and Race-based Medical Practice
Faadiel Essop (Stellenbosch University) and Saleha Suleman (University of Cape Town)
3. Race, Racism and the US Production and Exportation of Medical Science
Jaya Aysola and Michelle Munyikwa (University of Pennsylvania)
4. Colonial Laboratories as Imperial Sites of Knowledge Production - the Case of the Medical Research Institute (MRI) in Nigeria
Adedamola Adetiba (University of Manchester)
5. When Evidence Misrepresents: Epistemic Failures of Evidence-Based Medicine and the BiDil Controversy
Wandile Ganya and Wanele Ganya (Stellenbosch University)
Part II: Solutions
6. Knowing the Dead: Pedagogies of Forensic Humanitarian Action in Postcolonial Contexts
Keegan Meiring, Mandi Alblas and Kathryn Smith (Stellenbosch University)
7. Case Study: Decolonizing the Postgraduate Biomedical Sciences Curriculum
Faadiel Essop and Rhoda Meyer (Stellenbosch University)
8. Decolonizing the Medical Curriculum: A History, A Process, and The Fleshy Remainder
Rachel Niehuus (University of North Carolina School of Medicine)
9. Towards Sustainable Change-Embedding Decolonial Implementation Science in Medical Training to Reimagine Our World
Patricia Maritim (University of Zambia School of Public Health), Ramya Kumar (University of Washington School of Public Health) and Muneera Rasheed (University of Bergen)
10. Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into the Health Sciences Curriculum: A Path towards Decolonial Healing and Holistic Care
Mabitja Moeta (University of Johannesburg)
11. Not Asking for a Seat, but Building a New Table: Case for a Global South-centered Model in Medicine
Muneera Rasheed (University of Bergen)
12. Towards Inclusive Medical Education, Research and Practice: Removing Race from Genetics
Pedro W. Fernandez, Phila M. Msimang, Caitlin Uren and Desiree C. Petersen (Stellenbosch University)
13. Shaping an Inclusive Health Care Ethics Framework in the 21st Century: Lessons from African Bioethics and Relational Approaches
Berna Gerber, Juan Bornman and Alida Naude (Stellenbosch University)
14. Reclaiming Wholeness: Ayurveda, Colonization, and the Healing of Medicine
Sheila Patel (University of California San Diego)
15. Harnessing the Health-Promoting Potential of Indigenous Foods: Enhancing Public Health and Advancing Environmental Sustainability
Xikombiso Mbhenyane (Stellenbosch University), Nomakhushe Nxusani (Stellenbosch University), Vanessa Mbhatsani (Stellenbosch University), Sefora Makuse (University of Venda), Mthokozisi Zuma (Stellenbosch University)
Part III
Conclusions and future reflections
Faadiel Essop (Stellenbosch University)
