Samir Shaheen-Hussain is a pediatric emergency physician who practices in Montreal and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. He also played a central role in the #aHand2Hold campaign, which won a victory against one aspect of medical colonialism in Quebec in 2018. Scott Neigh interviews him about his new book, …
Thanks to Samir Shaheen-Hussain — physician, long-time activist, and author of *Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada* — for the interview just now about the book, about medical colonialism, and about the struggle against it. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in February!
This week has included two Talking Radical interviews — yesterday with paediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain (below), about last year’s #AHand2Hold campaign that won an important victory vs. medical colonialism and systemic racism in health care in Quebec; and today with LaMeia Reddick (top left) and Ted Rutland (top right) about histories and present realities of anti-Black citybuilding …