Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare

Divided exposes the racial biases of medicine that affect our everyday lives and provides an illuminating insight into how our world works, and who it works for. It is a necessary call to action that will reshape how we see health and medicine forever.

Format: Hardback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 06 April 2023
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK OF 2023
An illuminating and powerful intersectional analysis of health inequalities and racism
i-D Magazine
Prepare to be blown away
Chikwe Ihekweazu, Assistant Director General at WHO
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are all too aware of the urgent health inequalities that plague our world.
But these inequalities have always been urgent: modern medicine has a colonial and racist history.
Here, in an essential and searing account, Annabel Sowemimo unravels the colonial roots of modern medicine.
Tackling systemic racism, hidden histories, and healthcare myths, Sowemimo recounts her own experiences as a doctor, patient, and activist.
Divided exposes the racial biases of medicine that affect our everyday lives and provides an illuminating - and incredibly necessary - insight into how our world works, and who it works for.
This book will reshape how we see health and medicine - forever.
A vital call to action
Leah Hazard, author of Womb
Urgent examination of how modern medicine is intertwined with colonial histories and racist ideas ... compelling story-telling
Joanna Wolfarth, author of Milk
Outstanding ... beautifully written and erudite, yet highly accessible ... should be mandatory reading for all medical practitioners
Jacqueline Roy, author of The Fat Lady Sings
Necessary. In the right hands, this book will save lives
Nova Reid, author of The Good Ally

Weight: 638g
Dimension: 163 x 241 x 39 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788169202
Edition number: Main