On 5th October, Profile Books and Wellcome Collection publish Divided: Racism, Healthcare and Why We Need to Decolonise Medicine by Dr Annabel Sowemimo. This searing polemic reveals how racism and colonialism have shaped science and medicine – leading to the health inequalities we see all around us today.
Activist, doctor and patient, Annabel Sowemimo reinserts the stories of Black and Indigenous scientists and doctors into the historical narrative, reframing how we see the ‘objective’ systems we operate within. In confronting this history, she argues for better understanding of our collective past to bring about urgent change.
