Date of Award

2022

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

Second Department

Natural Sciences

First Advisor

Leininger, Elizabeth

Area of Concentration

Health Sciences and Humanities

Abstract

This thesis answers the presented question in the affirmative, stating that it is a responsibility of physicians and other healthcare professionals (HCPs) to participate in social activism for racial justice. This is done in four section. The Introduction subsections aim to recognize structural racism in the medical field through historical examples and their residual impacts, explaining why physicians/HCPs should be included in the opposition and deconstruction of systemic racism, and why action should be taken in the form of social activism. Chapter 1 addresses the current literatures uses the terms of Advocacy and Activism in the health field. With subsections discussing and attempting to define and differentiate these terms in the medical context, real world application, and addressing the current extent of medical activism. Highlighting the need for an increase of activism in healthcare professionals, and what can be done as acts of activism rather than just advocacy. Chapter 2 is on social activism as an included responsibility for physicians and other healthcare professionals. This chapters subsection’s reasoning why it is included in their professional responsibilities and the counter argument. Also, mentioning obstacles physicians/healthcare professionals face impacting their engagement in social activism.

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