Medical Racism

After viewing "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks", this week's subject came to me. Yes, it will make you angry, but history often does.  Our bodies have been used to advance all manner of science in this country and more stories need to be told. We know of the Tuskegee Experiments, and now the story of Henrietta Lacks, but there are many more. In the 1840s, a Virginia … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Medical Racism – Experiments on African-Americans