What counts as “bioethics”? What perspectives and topics have been marginalized? In this episode, Devan and Tyler talk with Professor Keisha Ray about her work in black bioethics and why it is necessary.

#BlackBioethics

Read more from Keisha Ray

• Black Bioethics and how the failures of the profession paved the way for its existence

• Intersectionality and the dangers of white empathy when treating black patients

• Inefficient pain management for black patients show that there is a fine line between ‘inhumane’ and ‘superhuman’

Dr. Ray’s Reading Essentials (as mentioned on the podcast)

• Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to Present

• Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

• John Hoberman, Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism

• Damon Tweedy, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine