THE WEEKEND BABY! This series was heart-breaking and speaks to the depravity inflicted upon people of color in this country. I know these were tough reads, but necessary reads also. This one today, just 20 years ago. I purposefully chose to insert pics of young beautiful black boys to contrast the image put upon them by this "study." In 1998, Federal research-ethics … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Medical Racism – Experiments on African-Americans
Medical Experiments
Friday Open Thread: Medical Racism – Experiments on African-Americans
Friday Finally. In 1994, following the publication of a series of articles on plutonium injections of American citizens, President Clinton appointed an advisory committee on human radiation experiments to investigate the matter and gave it access to thousands of secret documents. Jonathan D. Moreno, a biomedical ethicist at the University of Virginia, worked for the … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Medical Racism – Experiments on African-Americans
Thursday Open Thread: Medical Racism – Experiments on African-Americans
Gird you loins! It's gonna be a tough one. We continue to look at the horrific practice of using slaves and prisoners for medical experiments in the United States. Invasive surgeries and other shocking experiments were “commonplace” on slaves before the Civil War, according to a sweeping new survey of old medical journals. Electric shocks, brain surgery, amputations — these … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Medical Racism – Experiments on African-Americans
Wednesday Open Thread: Medical Racism – Experiments on African-Americans
We continue to look at the horrors inflicted upon African Americans in the name of medical science and research. In today's entry, we post an article from 1998 in the Baltimore Sun on the experiments conducted at Holmesburg Prison in the 1950s. Also posted, an article from the New York Times in 2006 on the updated cases at Holmesburg Prison and a desire to continue the horrors. … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Medical Racism – Experiments on African-Americans
Tuesday Open Thread: Medical Racism – Experiments on African-Americans
There are three statues in the United States honoring Dr. James Marion Sims, a 19th-century physician dubbed the father of modern gynecology. Invisible in his shadow are the enslaved women whom he experimented on. Today, they are unknown and unnamed except for three: Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey. On the shady northwest corner of the statehouse grounds in Columbia, South … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Medical Racism – Experiments on African-Americans