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Medicine and medical science: Black lives must matter more The Lancet

The following quote appeared in an editorial in The Lancet on June 13, 2020:

 

"What can medical journals do? Our task is to educate ourselves and others about racism. We must support Black and minority ethnic health workers. And we must use evidence and our values to speak out for Black and minority ethnic communities. The Lancet is a journal with a deep colonial history: the journal has published work that supported the health of settler colonialists and that prioritised their health over those who were dominated and oppressed. We need not only to acknowledge this history, but also to find ways to use science as an instrument for social change. We pledge our solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. But we must now turn that pledge into concrete actions in our own work, through the research we publish, the authors we commission, and the individuals we choose to profile and recognise. We have a long way to go to fulfil these objectives. But we will."

 

The full article is linked below

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31353-2

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