Colonial Geographies, Black Geographies, and Bioethics.
Black feminism
Black geographies
Katherine McKittrick
anti-Black racism
bioethics
human geography
Journal
The Hastings Center report
ISSN: 1552-146X
Titre abrégé: Hastings Cent Rep
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0410447
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
03 2022
03 2022
Historique:
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2022
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27
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2022
medline:
29
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2022
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Résumé
Structural anti-Black racism exists within the fields of bioethics and medicine. The colonial structures underlying bioethics render the geographies and subjectivities of Black scholars and patients "ungeographic," hidden by dominant White geographies. In this essay, I aim to illuminate more clearly the anti-Black racist structures embedded in bioethics and medicine by engaging with Katherine McKittrick's work Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. Specifically, I apply McKittrick's concepts of Black geographies to the physical spaces of health care (which could be the hospital, intensive care ward, or birthing room) and the discursive space of bioethics journals and texts. Finally, recommendations are made for bioethics to build the capacity to hold a multiplicity of geographies simultaneously.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
S66-S68Informations de copyright
© 2022 The Hastings Center.
Références
As Tinker explains, the use of lowercase for “eurochristian” is intentional for two reasons: it is an adjectival and sociological category rather than a proper noun, and it decenters the universalizing and bounded categories of both “Europe” and “Christian.” G. Tinker, “The Irrelevance of Euro-christian Dichotomies for Indigenous Peoples: Beyond Nonviolence to a Vision of Cosmic Balance,” in Peacemaking and the Challenge of Violence in World Religions, ed. I. Omar (Chichester, UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2015), 206.
K. McKittrick, Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2006), xi.
Ibid., 7.
Ibid., xxi.
Ibid., xviii.
R. P. Fitzgerald et al., “Excluding Indigenous Bioethical Concerns When Regulating Frozen Embryo Storage: An Aotearoa New Zealand Case Study,” Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online 8 (2019): 10-22, at 18.
McKittrick, Demonic Grounds, xv.
Ibid., 134.
S. Wynter, “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, after Man, Its Overrepresentation-an Argument,” CR: The New Centennial Review 3, no. 3 (2003): 257-337.
McKittrick, Demonic Grounds, 146.
Ibid., 145.
Ibid., xvii.