Racialized Bodies focuses specifically on the use of “race” in health institutions and medical practices. What does it mean that race is often included as a factor in health and medical outcomes? This interactive exchange allows for users to think together and with various works to examine the ways that the social and political construction of race has impacted human health. How did early medical professionals connect race to physical health in ways that maintained colonial domination? How do physicians continue to understand race in relationship to health and medical interventions? How does “race” stand to impact human health in the decades to come? This section of the exchange invites users to learn how the racialization of human bodies has impacted health outcomes.
