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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
