In (allied) healthcare, evidence-based practice (EBP) is commonly taught. I have found a decolonial critique of EBP in Kemp, C. G., White, L., et al. (2026) which I am planning to read, but I am wondering if others have more knowledge of the literature and could share practical information for what a decolonial or non-Western shift in service delivery may look like. Thank you!
>Those who assume (often unconsciously) that it is impossible to achieve their life’s desires-and, thus, that it is futile to fight for themselves — usually end up fighting for an ideal or cause instead. They may appear to engage in self-directed activity, but in reality they have accepted alienation from their desires as a way of life. All subjugations of personal desires to the dictates of a cause or ideology are reactionary no matter how “revolutionary” the actions arising from such subjugations may appear . . . Yet, one of the great secrets of our miserable, yet potentially marvellous time, is that thinking can be a pleasure. Despite the suffocating effect of the dominant religious and political ideologies, many individuals do learn to think for themselves; and by doing so — by actively, critically thinking for themselves, rather than by passively accepting pre-digested opinions — they reclaim their minds as their own.