Racial Medicalization

For your first response paper in this class, you will need to use the readings and notes available to you to create an argument that answers the question below. Be sure to develop a clear and central thesis or argument that advances a line of reasoning, extract the most important and essential information from the readings, and support claims with well-balanced and well-chosen examples from the readings, and adequately explain how these examples support each point. You need to use the readings as evidence to make your own argument rather than just restate the author’s arguments. How are the course readings in conversation with each other? Do they agree? Do they show change over time? These principles will help you structure your paper to achieve the greatest clarity in your argument.

The evidence you use to support your argument will come from your readings for the course:
Course Readings for Weeks 1-4
Any TED talks or Presentations:
The problem with race-based medicine | Dorothy Roberts – YouTube
The Origin of Race in the USA – YouTube

Please write a 5-7 page paper (12pt, Times New Roman, Double Spaced) that addresses the following question.

How did understandings of a biological race drive the development of racialized medicine and gynecology? How did African ways of caring for the sick reinforce or contradict these understandings?

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