Cook Center Core Faculty Keisha Bentley-Edwards was interviewed for an article in The Charlotte Post on the bias that remains in medicine and higher Black mortality rates.
Dr. Bentley-Edwards, the Associate Director of Research and Director of the Health Equity Working Group for the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and an Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, at Duke University, contributed a perspective on the disparities Black people face based on racialized myths in the medical profession.
You have to consider the history and the context that the medical profession has been trained in over generations, and a lot of it is rooted in these racialized myths about Black people, especially with this idea of race as biology rather than race as a social construct.”
-Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards
Read the article here.
