Medical Meddling: Human Experimentation
Dr. Carol François and Kourtney are at it again uncovering the unsavory history of systemic racism in America’s healthcare system. Human medical experimentation and the United States are two terms rarely uttered in the same sentence, but the duo traces some of the more unnerving instances of experiments done on unsuspecting victims down through the years in American medical and scientific settings. From grave robbing to secret tests, you’ll hear how Black/African Americans were exploited in government sanctioned human experimentation. Learn more about what the aunt and her niece are up to at this link https://linktr.ee/WATSA.
#medicalexperimentation #blacklivesmatter #secretscience #graverobbing #antiracism #inclusion #clinicalstudies
Citations
“In an effort to increase black participation in clinical trials, white institutions are finally ready to shoulder burden of becoming more ‘trustworthy’,” David Love, Atlantic Black Star, May, 7, 2016.
“Interview with Wilbert Smith, author of hole in the head, the story of Vertus Hardiman,” Uchenna Edeh. July 26, 2015 https://kentakepage.com/interview-with-wilbert-smith-author-of-hole-in-the-head-the-story-of-vertus-hardiman/2019.
“The use of blacks for medical experimentation and demonstration in the 0ld south,” Savitt, Todd L., The Journal of Southern History, vol. 48, no. 3, 1982, pp. 331–348. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2207450. Accessed 6 Oct. 2020.
“Troubling History In Medical Research Still Fresh For Black Americans,” Rob Stein, Shots - Health News, NPR, Oct. 25, 2017.
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