Philosopher's Zone

Race, biology and medicine

Oct 25, 2023
This podcast explores how outdated ideas about race and biology continue to influence medicine, leading to harmful effects on racialized people. It discusses the racial bias in medical education, the impact of racial classification on EGFR calculation, the problematic science behind spirometry and other algorithms, and the historical experimentation on slaves in the US medical system.
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Race as Biology in Medical Education and Health
01:46 • 10min
3
Calculation of EGFR and the Impact of Racial Classification
11:41 • 2min
4
Race, Spirometry, and Racist Algorithms
13:30 • 9min
5
Racist Biology and Its Impact on the US Medical System
22:17 • 6min