Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction

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Chapter 1 Introduction
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Chapter 2 The Black Girl’s Burden: Eugenics, Genomics and Genocide in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling
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Chapter 3 The Unbearable Burden of Culture: Sexual Violence, Women’s Power and Cultural Ethics in Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death
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Chapter 4 Organ Donation, Mythic Medicine and Madness in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring
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Chapter 5 “I Mean to Survive”: Feminist Disability Theory and Womanist Survival Ethics in Octavia Butler’s Parables
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Chapter 6 Conclusion: Blood, Salt and Tears: Theorizing Difference in the Black Feminist Speculative Tradition

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Black Americans have legitimate reasons to be skeptical of getting the COVID-19 vaccine — a bioethicist explains why

Business Insider, 05 Mar 2021

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Many Black Americans aren’t rushing to get the COVID-19 vaccine – a long history of medical abuse suggests why.

infosurhoy, 26 Feb 2021

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Commentary: Many Black Americans aren’t rushing to get the COVID-19 vaccine – a long history of medical abuse suggests why

Portland Press Herald, 25 Feb 2021

Black Americans have been the least inclined of any racial or ethnic group to say they’d get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

History of medical abuse makes Black Americans wary of COVID-19 vaccine

UPI.com, 25 Feb 2021

Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Black Americans have been the least inclined of any racial or ethnic group to say they'd get vaccinated…

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