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Indigenous history in health education
  1. Macey Flood
  1. Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Macey Flood, Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA; maflood{at}utmb.edu

Abstract

Integrating Indigenous history in medical education prepares future providers to better understand and critique their practice, their patient collaborators and the causes and consequences of disease. Indigenous history offers students ready access to practise cultural humility and develop facility with diverse medical epistemologies. Furthermore, as providers who will practise in a world characterised by a climate catastrophe and its manifold health consequences, Indigenous history is critical for contextualising the climate crisis, the manifold contemporary responses and avenues towards reckoning and redress.

  • History
  • Education
  • cross-cultural studies

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  • Contributors MF is the sole contributor and guarantor of this article.

  • Funding This article was written during my position as Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities at UTMB-Galveston.

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.