Medicine is supposed to help everybody, but its benefits are unevenly distributed. Black patients are less likely to be offered appropriate pain medication, women's pain reports are often ignored, or put down to mental health issues, and Black women are five times more likely than white women to die in childbirth. What's going on? Are doctors racist and sexist? Or is there a broader social problem? What can we do to make things fairer? This talk attempts to answer these questions and to open up discussion for audience members to offer their views.
Arianne Shahvisi is a Kurdish-British writer and academic philosopher. She holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Cambridge and is Senior Lecturer in Ethics at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School, where she conducts research across a range of topics in applied philosophy, with a focus on gender, race, and migration. Arianne has written for Prospect, the LRB Blog, New Statesman, The Conversation, and Jacobin, has featured on BBC Radio and Channel 4 News, advised on policy around abortion provision and women's health, and was a judge for the 2019 PEN Science Writing Prize.
This is the third in the Brighton and Sussex Medical School's monthly lecture series, designed for local secondary school and college students. This lecture series, running from November 2019 through to July 2020, provides a unique opportunity for students to learn more about different aspects of medicine, career pathways, and how to get into medicine.
Arrival is from 6:00pm onwards, with some refreshments available. Please note, the talk will commence at 6:30pm.
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