Dorothy Roberts
Legal Scholar | Race, Gender & the Law
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Dorothy Roberts is an acclaimed scholar and public intellectual who has transformed how we understand the intersection of race, gender, and the law. As a Fulbright Scholar and recipient of the American Philosophical Society's Henry M.
Phillips Prize, she has explored the legal construction of race and the impact of race-based science on social policy. Roberts' groundbreaking books, including 'Killing the Black Body' and 'Fatal Invention', challenge systemic inequities and push audiences to rethink the role of law in perpetuating—and overcoming—social injustice.
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The problem with race-based medicine
Social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts has a precise and powerful message: Race-based medicine is bad medicine. Even today, many doctors still use race as a medical shortcut; they make important decisions about things like pain tolerance based on a patient's skin color instead of medical observation and measurement. In this searing talk, Roberts lays out the lingering traces of race-based medicine -- and invites us to be a part of ending it. "It is more urgent than ever to finally abandon this backward legacy," she says, "and to affirm our common humanity by ending the social inequalities that truly divide us."
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