Decolonising health and medicine

Published on October 16, 2023

There is growing demand for decolonisation - a process of rebuilding institutions and knowledge systems without the cultural and social impacts of colonial era violence, racism, misogyny, and Eurocentrism. Decolonisation matters profoundly to health because empire shaped medicine: from experimentation of enslaved populations and codification of race science, to the entrenchment of western scientific thinking in medical practice and the norm of white male bodies in anatomy and clinical study design. 

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