The Knowledge with David Elikwu 104. Systemic Racism and Healthcare with Layal Liverpool
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/
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🗣 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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