Want a primer on reparations, medical reparations, and health and care disparities? These references provide a good start.
On Reparations
- “Is it Time for Reparations in America?,” May 7, 2016, Al Jazeera (3:34).
- Congressional Testimony on The Reparations Bill (H.R. 40), June 18, 2019
- Ta-Nahisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations,” The Atlantic (2015)
On Health Disparities as a Reason for Reparations
- Basset and Galea, “Reparations as a Public Health Priority -- A Strategy for ending Black-White Health Disparities” New England Journal of Medicine (2020) https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp202617
- Rodney Hood, “The ‘Slave Health Deficit:’ The Case for Reparations to Bring Health Parity to African Americans,” Journal of the National Medical Association (2001)
On Medical Reparations
- Derek Ayeh, The Case for Medical Reparations, The New Inquiry, November 4, 2016
- Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, Advanced Seminar at the Radcliffe Institute, shared materials and bibliography
- Bram Wispelwey and Michelle Morse, "An Anti-Racist Agenda for Medicine." Boston Review (2021)