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Racist Inclusion and Marginalization in Medical Education and Practice in Germany – Perspectives of Racialized Medical Students and Physicians in the Context of Social Cohesion

In: Intersectional Challenges to Cohesion? On Marginalization in an Inclusive Society, hg. von Yudit Namer, Anne Stöcker, Amani Ashour, Janine Dieckmann, Philipp Schmidt und Carmen Zurbriggen, 139–155. Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt 7. Frankfurt: Campus

Authors

Hans Vogt und Felicia Boma Lazaridou

Abstract

Racist Inclusion and Marginalization in Medical Education and Practice in Germany – Perspectives of Racialized Medical Students and Physicians in the Context of Social Cohesion

Social cohesion can be seen as mainly constituted by social relations, sense of belonging, and orientation towards the common good, whereas inequality in access to material and symbolic resources and quality of life outcomes may be seen as antecedents or consequences of social cohesion (cf. Schiefer and Van der Noll 2017). Our exploratory study on racism in medical education and practice in Germany revealed connections to social cohesion understood in this way. This chapter takes a first step toward addressing these connections, arguing, above all, that different levels of institutional racism are closely intertwined. For example, exclusionary practices towards racialized patient groups are reflected in the de-thematization of racism in medical education, and exclusionary semantics, such as ‘us-them’ distinctions in teaching materials, are reflected in the everyday experiences of students and physicians. As a result, we conclude that the various elements of social cohesion cannot be considered in isolation from one another, especially in the context of racist social relations and with respect to the challenge of transfor-mative social change.

Sources

Vogt, Hans und Felicia Boma Lazaridou. 2024. Racist Inclusion and Marginalization in Medical Education and Practice in Germany – Perspectives of Racialized Medical Students and Physicians in the Context of Social Cohesion. In: Intersectional Challenges to Cohesion? On Marginalization in an Inclusive Society, hg. von Yudit Namer, Anne Stöcker, Amani Ashour, Janine Dieckmann, Philipp Schmidt und Carmen Zurbriggen, 139–155. 1. Aufl. Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt 7. Frankfurt: Campus, 19.06.2024. url: https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/soziologie/intersectional_challenges_to_cohesion-17944.html.

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