Andrea TilstraApr 27, 2023

To learn more about obstetric racism, I highly recommend reading work by @drdanaaindavis.

I find her article "Obstetric Racism: The Racial Politics of Pregnancy, Labor, & Birthing" and her book Reproductive Injustice particularly informative.

https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2018.1549389
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Lisa Marshall (@CUBoulder) wrote a summary piece on this in CU Boulder Today. She syncs our work with some scholars that…
https://twitter.com/Andrea_Tilstra/status/1651537653580398593

Obstetric Racism: The Racial Politics of Pregnancy, Labor, and Birthing

In this article, I analyze the birth stories of Black women living in the United States. Their birth stories describe various forms of racism during medical encounters while they were pregnant or d...

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We also learned from @RRHDr and colleagues, who in their 2016 NEJM article, write about the importance of "centering at the margins." The work by Prof. Hardeman & team @CARHEumn offer critical insights into how the US continues to fail at this.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1609535

Apr 27, 2023 at 1:31pmWeb