African Medical Myths

5 Dangerous Medical Myths That Hurt Black People

https://www.healthline.com/health/dangerous-medical-myths-that-hurt-black-people

How False Beliefs in Physical Racial Difference Still Live in …

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/racial-differences-doctors.html

Over the centuries, the two most persistent physiological myths — that black people were impervious to pain and had weak lungs that could be strengthened through hard work — …

How we fail black patients in pain | AAMC

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In a 2012 study, my colleagues and I found a correlation between pediatricians’ implicit (unconscious) racial biases and how they treated pain in a simulated African-American or white teenager following …

Racial bias in medicine - Harvard Global Health Institute

https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/racial-bias-in-medicine/

Race-based physiological myths have long influenced medical practice, he said. Even today, some doctors believe that African-Americans are more tolerant of pain. …

#YALICares: Health Myths and Facts - Young African …

https://yali.state.gov/health-myths-facts/

Myth #1: Cancer is caused by a curse and is a disease of the west. Fact : Cancer is caused by abnormal cell growth. It can occur in anyone regardless of race, …

Ramifications of slavery persist in health care inequality

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/10/ramifications-of-slavery-persist-in-health-care-inequality/

It focused on an African American woman in New Orleans who lost her first child because doctors ignored warning signs of an impending miscarriage. Treatment was nearly as bad when she was …

Medicine, Empires, and Ethics in Colonial Africa

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medicine-empires-and-ethics-colonial-africa/2016-07

At over 11 million square miles, Africa is the second-largest continent (after Asia) and was the last massive region of the world that Europeans colonized (between 1880 and 1910). The timing and scale of European colonization …

African Mythology – 15 Myths And Legends That Will …

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1. The Serer Creation Myth. Like in every creation myth in Africa, the Serer of Senegal, Mauritania and the Gambia have theirs. The account is linked to the first trees created by roog. According to the Serer …

Health and wellness among African peoples – facts and …

https://jacksonadvocateonline.com/health-and-wellness-among-african-peoples-facts-and-myths/

Who would believe that Ancient Africans were skilled in gynecology – birth control, abortion, and Caesarian sections? They were knowledgeable in anesthesia, …

Top 10 African Myths | The African Exponent.

https://www.africanexponent.com/post/top-10-african-myths-97

The Ronga of Mozambique tell the legend of a mother who gave a hippo her baby to protect it from a foe. The mother hippo would come with the baby to suckle from its mother every night. Gone are the …