1/30 Our conversation will be based on Chapter 12, MEDICINE by Linda Villarosa, other #The1619Project book chapters, relevant books and videos, and related life experiences.
You're welcome to participate - speak (not MLK 'moderate whites'), text/chat or just listen -.
2/30 Chapter 12, MEDICINE by Linda Villarosa
Page 323
"In reality, it's never been race that predicts the disease and disability that disproportionally afflict Black Americans, but racism."
https://spoutible.com/pod/663d8ee41bc4886907f30043
3/30 Ch. 12, MEDICINE
Pg 317
"Arline T. Geronimus, a professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health ... she coined the term "weathering" to explain how high-effort coping in the face of continuous racial insults exacts a physical price on the bodies of Black Americans.⁸"
4/30 Researchers examined the connection between race and biological aging
"On average, Black Americans are biologically about nine
years older than white Americans of the same chronological age. According to a new study by LDI Senior Fellow Courtney Boen"
https:
5/30 Chapter 12, MEDICINE
Page 318
"study of 222 white medical ... published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2016 showed that half of the students and residents endorsed at least one false idea about biological differences between Black people and white people"
6/30 Chapter 12, MEDICINE by Linda Villarosa
Page 318:
"For centuries, white physicians and scientists went to great lengths to prove that Black bodies were biologically and physiologically different from white bodies.¹⁰ To be clear, "different" almost always meant inferior."
7/30 MEDICINE
Page 320
"Cartwright {physician and professor of "diseases of the Negro" at the University of Louisiana..., now Tulane University} maintained that enslaved people were prone to a "disease of the mind" called drapetomania, which caused them to run away from their enslavers."
8/30 https://youtu.be/YlHv5vjpIL8?si=3gOp9WrxaZ3udd8t
Linda Villarosa Audiogram - YouTube
On April 24, 2023, author Linda Villarosa joined the Zinn Education Project to discuss her new book, "Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American L...
9/30 House Democratic Whip Rep. James Clyburn reflects on Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter from a Birmingham jail
https://youtu.be/jQ6odzvxDIE?si=wTUGRNhc-ysMLqAH
Clyburn on MLK Jr Day and the 'White moderate' in 2022 - YouTube
House Democratic Whip Rep. James Clyburn reflects on Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter from a Birmingham jail and how it applies to the United States in 2022 i...
10/30 https://youtu.be/KvryM2v-8y8?si=rh6RzaYrqPbMLwcW
Linda Villarosa on the Dangers of Medical Racism and the Black Maternal Health Crisis - YouTube
On this episode of Our Body Politic, host Farai Chideya, speaks with Linda Villarosa, journalist, author and educator about the dangers of medical racism. Li...
11/30 - Deliberate reduction, from 1910, in Black physicians
- Past and present practices and policies
- Cultural messaging
- Pain
- Curriculum
- Pipeline and financial assistance (lack of generational wealth)
- SCOTUS race conscious admissions
- Dr. Blackstock's mother
Why Aren’t There More Black Doctors in the U.S.? Dr. Uché Blackstock Explains | Amanpour and Company - YouTube
Dr. Uché Blackstock says Black physicians make up only 5.7% of doctors across the U.S., and the price for Black patients is severe. In her new book "Legacy,"...
12/30 https://youtu.be/BLZEBSoWUWE?si=8QTe9QGtcOtOID-S
Andrea Deyrup Combats Race-Based Medicine - YouTube
Andrea Deyrup, MD, PhD, professor in the Duke Department of Pathology, is challenging a long history of race-based medicine that is often based on questionab...
13/30 - Healthcare - most expensive in world, but relatively poor outcomes
- Racial health disparities
- Redlining, contract buying
- Wealth building
- Epiphany
- Weathering, premature aging
- Involuntary sterilization
- Birthing mortality
- Medical school training
- Listen
Linda Villarosa, "Under The Skin: The Hidden Toll Of Racism On American Lives And On The Health O... - YouTube
The New York Times listed author Linda Villarosa's "Under The Skin" as one of the "Ten Best Books of 2022." In this podcast, we hear more from her on the boo...
14/30 (Less than 2 minutes)
Q&A: Linda Villarosa - YouTube
ICN health reporter Victoria St. Martin interviews journalist Linda Villarosa, who has been reporting on racial health disparities for nearly four decades.
15/30 - non-promotion, non-recognition
- Mother
- Fish out of water, inter-generational
- Serena Williams not listened to
- Biologically different, pain
- Weathering
- From 1910, deliberate reduction in black medical schools
- MD education
- Do not go alone
- Generational wealth
Black Doctors and Patients Still Battling Racism in Medicine | Black America - YouTube
Dr. Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni Blackstock followed the path of their mother , Dr. Dale Blackstock, graduating from Harvard Medical School. Not ...
17/30 
White Nationalists Disrupt Jewish Author's Book Reading | NowThis - YouTube
White nationalists crashed Jewish author Dr. Jonathan Metzl reading of his new book Dying of Whiteness and chanted 'this land is our land.'» Subscribe to Now...
18/30 "But as Dying of Whiteness shows, the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death."
19/30 Our conversation will be based on Chapter 12, MEDICINE by Linda Villarosa, other #The1619Project book chapters, relevant books and videos, and related life experiences.
You're welcome to participate - speak (not MLK 'moderate whites'), text/chat or just listen -.
20/30 Our conversation will be based on Chapter 12, MEDICINE by Linda Villarosa, other #The1619Project book chapters, relevant books and videos, and related life experiences.
You're welcome to participate - speak (not MLK 'moderate whites'), text/chat or just listen -.
21/30 - Systemic racism, chronic state of stress arousal, chronic level of vigilance
- Fight or flight mode, stress hormones raging
- Post-teen maternal outcomes
- Anticipating, ruminating afterwards
- Withstand stressors
- Morbidity
- Physiologically aged
- Monitor & manage health
- Training
Arline T. Geronimus discusses “Weathering” with Linda VIllarosa - YouTube
Harvard Book Store welcomes ARLINE T. GERONIMUS—Professor in the School of Public Health and Research Professor in the Institute for Social Research at the U...
22/30 - Lungs, the spirometer, race correction
- Medicine
- Pain
- Sugar
- Traffic
- Race, 400 year legacy, much government mandated
- Lift up work of Black writers
- Historical facts
Linda Villarosa on the Legacy of Slavery in the US | Amanpour and Company - YouTube
400 years ago, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, starting the long and painful history of slavery in the U.S. Jo...
23/30 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/americas-racial-contract-showing/611389/
24/30 Dr Andrea Deyrup (2 months ago) re - training physicians in race-based medicine
- lung function, spirometer
Koohttps://youtu.be/qt3thAfOQM8?si=zFXM62NsEhzLkx-Dl
In the world of medicine, race-based diagnoses are more than skin deep - YouTube
We've probably said it a hundred times on Code Switch — biological race is not a real thing. So why is race still used to help diagnose certain conditions, l...
25/30 2008 ICE raid on Postville, Iowa meatpacking plant
https://youtu.be/_dc9MvYwfBQ?si=A4c5BipVq1_KC0yX
Arline T. Geronimus discusses “Weathering” with Linda VIllarosa - YouTube
Harvard Book Store welcomes ARLINE T. GERONIMUS—Professor in the School of Public Health and Research Professor in the Institute for Social Research at the U...
26/30 
27/30 "This led to disproportionately low numbers of Black doctors, according to the American Association of Medical Colleges"
"Black people, he wrote, should be “sanitarians” rather than doctors and should focus on preventing disease in white people"
https://www.timesofisrael.com/j
29/30 Textbooks
- From 4 minutes in:
"More than 35 diseases for which some sort of disparity was associated with socially defined race"
- From 11 minutes in:
Lists of diseases
- Pushback "But what about?"
- Acceptance of change
Andrea Deyrup: C. Bruce Alexander Lecture APC 2022 - YouTube
The C. Bruce Alexander Lecture is awarded to individuals with exceptional contributions to graduate medical education. Although I am an undergraduate medical...
30/30 https://youtu.be/dKsA6Md_oAg?si=kIpW2Lc5qIRxWy6L
The Story of How Black American Doctors are Isolated, Alienated, and Marginalized in Residency. - YouTube
This video is a detailed examination of the complex series of events that play out in residency programs across the nation as Black Doctor's futures are dest...
