Open Lecture: 'Decolonizing Dentistry to Centre Health Justice: Dismantling White Supremacy and Power from Oral Health'

Dr Eleanor Fleming is a Bristol Next Generation Visiting Researcher. She is visiting from the University of Maryland, USA, and working with Dr Patricia Neville and others in the Dental School and beyond on the project Decolonizing Dentistry to Centre Health Justice: Dismantling White Supremacy and Power from Oral Health. 

Held in conjunction with the Centre for Black Humanities and the Black and Brown Bioethics Network, this talk will contemplate the inherent whiteness of dentistry, and the epistemic, empirical and institutional biases of oral healthcare. Drawing on contributions from Black (feminist) theory, decolonisation principles and tenets, critical race theory and anti-oppressive work, this talk will create and hold a space to imagine a counter-hegemonic view of dentistry as a healthcare system, educational system, research and clinical practice.

This talk will be followed by a formal reception.

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