David speaks with Layal Liverpool, an author and science journalist with expertise in biomedical science, particularly virology and immunology. She worked as a biomedical researcher at the University College London and the University of Oxford in the UK. Her writing has appeared in Nature, New Scientist, WIRED, the Guardian, and elsewhere, and she has worked on staff as a reporter for both Nature and New Scientist.

They talked about:

🎭 The difference between perceived racism and actual racism

🚫 The ineffectiveness of racial categorization

🏗️ The idea of race as a social construct

🩺 The misconceptions of 'black' and 'white' diseases

📉 Systemic racism in healthcare

🌍 Racism as a public health issue

📜 Full transcript:

theknowledge.io/layalliverpool-1/

📹 Watch on Youtube:

https://youtu.be/OV8p5yLuhbU

🗣 Mentioned in the show:

Liverpool slave trade | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_slave_trade

International Slavery Museum | https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/international-slavery-museum

Systematic racism | https://theknowledge.io/issue13/

Islamophobia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia

Antisemitism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism

AAA Statement on Race | https://americananthro.org/about/policies/statement-on-race/

Garrett Jones | https://theknowledge.io/garettjones-1/

Sickle cell disease | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_cell_disease

Lyme disease | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease

Malaria | https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria

Anti-blackness | https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/files/2022/06/Anti-Black.pdf

Cystic fibrosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystic_fibrosis

COVID-19 | https://theknowledge.io/issue7/

Influenza A (H1N1) | https://www.who.int/emergencies/situations/influenza-a-(h1n1)-outbreak

Samuel A. Cartwright | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_A._Cartwright

American Thoracic Society | https://site.thoracic.org/

European Respiratory Society | https://www.ersnet.org/

FIVEXMORE | https://fivexmore.org/

Maternity Discrimination | https://maternalmentalhealthalliance.org/news/black-maternity-experiences-survey-five-x-more/

William Turner | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Turner_(anatomist)

Long lunches in Paris | https://theknowledge.io/issue65/#:~:text=Long lunches in Paris

Clandestine Pad Thai | https://theknowledge.io/issue65/#:~:text=Clandestine Pad Thai

Murder of George Floyd | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_George_Floyd

👤Connect with Layal:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/layallivs

Website: https://layalliverpool.com/

Book:

SYSTEMIC: How Racism is Making Us Ill | https://amzn.to/4c9lnaW

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