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Magical Thinking Won’t Save Modern Western Science. Dignity Will.
Trigger warning: The following text contains the overlooked, invaluable lived experiences of countless humans with modern Western science’s hegemony over patients and humanity, its inherent dehumanization, and its often disregarded systemic limits. Proceeding further is left at the reader’s discretion.… Continue reading
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🌿 Summer of Unlearning: A Series to Reimagining Healthcare- Week 5 – The end is just the beginning: The Patient-Led Scientific Revolution. (Short e-Book)
It’s our final installment of the Summer Of Unlearning, a series of books to unlearn, open our minds, and reimagine healthcare. This insightful series honors the artist-researchers with whom I collaborate as a science decolonization writer and self-declared epistemo-pathologist. The… Continue reading
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The Myth of Scientific Neutrality: Institutional Amnesia and the Scheveningen Eugenic Conference of 1936 – Why does it resonate today?
Introduction: Eugenics as Colonial Violence—Why Its Legacy Demands Our Vigilance Now Eugenics—forged in the crucible of European colonialism by Francis Galton—was never neutral science. It was a weapon. Galton’s theories, born from observing racial hierarchies in British-occupied South Africa, weaponized… Continue reading
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🌿 Summer of Unlearning Series: A Reading Series for Reimagining Healthcare – Week 2 – Ed Cohen’s A Body Worth Defending – What if our bodies aren’t battlefields?
Every Friday until summer vacation, I’ll share a book that cracks open the foundations of medical science—so you can build a liberatory reading list for the break. This series honors the artist-researchers with whom I collaborate as a science decolonization… Continue reading
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🌿 Summer of Unlearning: A Reading Series for Reimagining Healthcare – Week 1 – Michel Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception.
Every Friday until summer vacation, I’ll share a book that cracks open the foundations of medical science so you can compile a reading list for the summer break. This series honors the artist-researchers with whom I collaborate as a science decolonization writer… Continue reading
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Colonial Amnesia and the Psychology of Healing: A Call for Institutional Courage. (Interaction with A Museum – A hopeful dark chapter)
In the post “How the science of the past still haunts today’s culture“, I shared my reflections on Huis Marseille’s Revoir Paris exhibition, which omitted the violent history of ethnological exhibitions—human zoos—that Western science once framed as “progress.” Today, I return… Continue reading
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International Women’s Day 2025: food for thought.
Western feminism’s timeline explained to my 8-year-old African-Asian-European nephew: 1492 – Early 18th century – A handful of privileged European men gave themselves the right to rule the world and brutally shut the door behind them. Late 18th – Early… Continue reading
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Black History Month – The forgotten history of African American patients standing against the first 21st-century drug based on 19th-century racial science
The Rise and Fall of BiDil, a heart failure drug : A Story of Science, Race, and Power BiDil was never just a pill. It symbolized the power dynamics in Western science, the illusion of objectivity, and the persistent failure… Continue reading
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Elizabeth Sankey’s Witches: an eery connection with women challenged with childbirth mental health.
Postpartum mental health challenges are often hidden behind societal expectations of joy and fulfillment. Conditions like postpartum psychosis and postpartum depression affect many new mothers, bringing with them fear, disconnection, and overwhelming struggles that go unspoken. Postpartum depression impacts 1… Continue reading
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Science decoloniality 101: Dispelling the skin mythology of Western science’s magical thinking
The lack of critical thinking and cultural self-reflection in Western science knowledge about humankind is one of the most overlooked harms to patients. Skin cancer is a poignant example of how Eurocentric Western healthcare design feeds patient inequities through a… Continue reading
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