Berger and Miller argue that contemporary medical education directed toward “cultural competency” fails to address the structural inequities and systemic racism underpinning health dispariti...

Foreign knowledge being tested: European physicians fighting the Moscow plague of 1771. – The transfer of Western medicine to Russia increased significantly in the Eighteenth century. Foreign doctors were employed, their writings translated, their education standards copied. But who regarded that knowledge as superior and why? Taking the Moscow Plague of 1771 as a case study, this article examines the crucial role foreign and Russian medical practitioners played during the epidemic. It argues that especially those ideas and practices that were (...) useful for social control filtered into politics and public discourse, but failed to convince the majority of the population. (shrink)

(2006). BOOK REVIEW of Perspectives on EcoJustice Education Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. Educational Studies: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 163-167.