🎙️ 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 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/
📄 Show notes:
[00:00] Introduction
[02:37] The origin of the surname 'Liverpool’
[04:06] Perceived Racism vs. Actual Racism
[05:57] The definition of 'race’
[09:07] The limitations of racial categorization
[11:16] Race is a social construct
[12:59] Racial disparities in disease
[16:55] How racial bias affects medical diagnosis and treatment
[19:13] Is the coronavirus racist?
[23:12] Bias and predisposition in health systems
[26:19] The impact of racism on maternity health
[28:33] The influence of history on contemporary beliefs
[34:03] Racial biases in healthcare practices
[36:06] Strategies for balancing race in healthcare
🗣 Mentioned in the show:
Liverpool slave trade | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpo...
International Slavery Museum | www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/i...
Systematic racism | theknowledge.io/issue13/
Islamophobia | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamop...
Antisemitism | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisem...
AAA Statement on Race | americananthro.org/about/poli...
Garrett Jones | theknowledge.io/garettjones-1/
Sickle cell disease | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_...
Lyme disease | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_di...
Malaria | www.who.int/news-room/fact-sh...
Anti-blackness | www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/...
Cystic fibrosis | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystic_...
COVID-19 | theknowledge.io/issue7/
Influenza A (H1N1) | www.who.int/emergencies/situa...
Samuel A. Cartwright | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_...
American Thoracic Society | site.thoracic.org/
European Respiratory Society | www.ersnet.org/
FIVEXMORE | fivexmore.org/
Maternity Discrimination | maternalmentalhealthalliance....
William Turner | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...)
Long lunches in Paris | theknowledge.io/issue65/#:~:t... lunches in Paris
Clandestine Pad Thai | theknowledge.io/issue65/#:~:t... Pad Thai
Murder of George Floyd | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...
👤Connect with Layal:
Twitter: / layallivs
Website: layalliverpool.com/
Book:
SYSTEMIC: How Racism is Making Us Ill | amzn.to/4c9lnaW
👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:
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Professional victims

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