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There is a paradox at the heart of Western medicine. It was about a color-obsessed white doctor who sought to prove the inferiority of darker-skinned people to justify European colonization and Atlantic slavery. and built on the legacy of scientists. This persists today in the form of racial bias in medicine, contributing to widely documented health disparities.
But Western medicine also ignores darker skin from medical…
