Episode Details

CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series

Episode 24 – Leveraging Narrative Medicine to Cultivate Antiracist Praxis

Show Notes by Sudarshan Krishnamurthy

February 13, 2024

Summary: This episode highlights the ways in which we might leverage stories, at the individual and structural levels, to reimagine medicine with a liberatory practice. During this episode, we hear from Zahra Khan, an educator and editor who has written extensively on abolition in medicine, and Dr. Sayantani DasGupta, a physician-educator, prolific children’s book author and faculty at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Together, our guests offer context around how the medical and carceral systems are deeply intertwined and go hand-in-hand. Further, they expand on this to discuss how we might use stories in the form of visionary and speculative fiction to reimagine new landscapes of health care. This discussion is hosted by Sudarshan Krishnamurthy and Ashley Cooper. The show notes for this episode were written by Sudarshan Krishnamurthy.

Episode Learning Objectives

After listening to this episode, learners will be able to:

1. Illustrate the relationship between narrative medicine and healing relationships.
2. Explain the significance of abolition medicine, and the role of the medical system in upholding and perpetuating carceral logics.
3. Discuss how we might use narrative and stories to enact social change and reimagine medicine.

Credits

• Written and produced by: Sudarshan Krishnamurthy, Ashley Cooper, Team
• Hosts: Sudarshan Krishnamurthy and Ashley Cooper
• Infographic: Creative Edge Design
• Audio Edits: Ashley Coope