Slaves

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