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Racism, Colonial Medicine and Global Health

29 March

On 29 March we offer the second lecture in the series organized in collaboration with the Amics de la Unesco de Barcelona, to speak with paediatrician and ISGlobal researcher Rosauro Varo on structural violence in relation to colonization, health, and bioethics.

The aim of the talk is to contextualize and define concepts such as “racism” and “colonization” in relation to the basic principles of bioethics and ethics applied to medicine. He will also offer the vision of health workers in Africa, both national and foreign, as regards colonialism and its underlying racist ideology.

Discussion will focus on racism as the basis for Europe’s imperialist expansion in Africa in the nineteenth century and the effects it has had on the continent’s health and medical research systems ever since. The conference will explore colonial practices, the mechanisms of oppression and racist biases, examining their impact on the development of biomedical research.

 

Read a preview of the lecture on our blog

 

Conference video is now available

 

29 March at 6:30 p.m.
In-person activity
Seu d’Amics de UNESCO de Barcelona
c/Mallorca, 207 Barcelona

 

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