A review by madame_geneva
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock

5.0

This was such a great book, both fascinating and heartbreaking. Some especially interesting topics were the establishment of emergency medicine as a discipline through black political action in Philadelphia & the history of black women birth workers, and the recent medicalisation of childbirth.

My heart broke at the stories of the sickle cell anaemia patient & young black woman who miscarries. Not to mention the firsthand account of urgent care work during the COVID pandemic. A brilliant read.