Analysis explores racial health disparities and proposes an integrated model centered on justice and care.
Despite advances in medicine, race continues to be used as a diagnostic and therapeutic heuristic in clinical practice, perpetuating harmful health disparities. This article examines how Dr. Andrea Deyrup's pioneering work at Duke University has exposed the scientific inadequacy of race-based medicine, demonstrating that racialized health disparities stem from socioeconomic and structural determinants rather than inherent biological differences. Drawing on ecosocial theory, liberation theology, and the therapeutic vision articulated in my work at jyungar.com, we propose a healing model that centers justice, narrative presence, and sacred advocacy—one that displaces racial typologies with relational, context-based care that honors the patient as sacred text.
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