Podcast

Ethics Talk: Ebola Responses in Colonial Context

Description

Good epidemic responses require cross-disciplinary collaboration. Dr David Heymann talks about serving in an Ebola containment campaign and Dr Christy Rentmeester explains what clinicians should know about colonialism to promote health equity.

 

Acknowledgement

Dr Christy Rentmeester’s comments were drawn from her article, Postcolonial Bioethics: A Lens for Considering the Historical Roots of Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Mental Health, which appeared in Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (2012;21(3):366-374).

 

Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewee(s) had no conflicts of interest to disclose.

Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.