Public Health Critical Race Methodology, Bounded Justice, and Extractive Abandonment (Melissa Cre...

Thinking In Between is back! On this episode, we welcome Dr Melissa Creary who is Associate Professor in Health Management and Policy and Global Public Health at the University of Michigan. Melissa discusses these three ideas: 1) The public health critical race methodology: praxis for antiracism research, and this paper in particular: Ford CL, Airhihenbuwa CO. The public health critical race methodology: praxis for antiracism research. Soc Sci Med. 2010 Oct;71(8):1390-8. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.07.030. Epub 2010 Aug 11. PMID: 20822840. 2) Bounded Justice, originally described in this paper: Creary MS. Bounded Justice and the Limits of Health Equity. J Law Med Ethics. 2021;49(2):241-256. doi: 10.1017/jme.2021.34. PMID: 34924041; PMCID: PMC8245211. 3) Extractive Abandonment, originally described in: Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. Health Communism. New York: Verso Books, 2022 Throughout, Melissa reflects on insights from being a scholar living with sickle cell disease, and on what it is like to work in a health equity space during this particular historical moment .We finish on the practice of dreaming justice.