Season 3 Episode 2: Lucinda Canty on racism in institutions and birthing care

Synopsis: As a US-based Black nurse-midwife, Lucinda Canty knows that nurses and midwives do not leave their prejudices at home. Implicit assumptions and biases follow them to work and wield a profound influence on perinatal care and patient outcomes. In this episode, we talk about the challenges of addressing racial disparities in reproductive health – and the power of bringing people into conversation about their shared experiences. [Content warning: This episode contains conversations about medical trauma and negligence] Notes: Follow Lucinda on Twitter: @LucindaCantyPhD Overdue reckoning Lucinda’s house Lucinda’s poetry and visual art Music in this episode includes ‘Algorithms’ by Chad Crouch, ‘Dark Water’ by Nul Tiel Records and ‘Webbed’ and ‘Salientia’ by REW<<<, used under a Creative Commons license from Free Music Archive. Birthing and Justice is written and produced by Dr Ruth De Souza on the traditional and unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations. Sound editing by Olivia Smith.

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Season 3 Episode 2: Lucinda Canty on racism in institutions and birthing care is an episode from Birthing and Justice with Dr Ruth De Souza by Dr Ruth De Souza.

This episode is 41:51 long.

This episode was published on May 10, 2022.

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