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For over a century, Black bodies were used—examined, experimented on, and exploited in the name of science. From plantation doctors perfecting procedures on enslaved women without anesthesia, to the government letting Black men die slow deaths in Tuskegee, to the stolen cells of a unsuspecting Black women changing medical history.
This isn’t ancient history. It’s a pattern. And it shaped the way Black communities view medicine, hospitals, and doctors.
So join us today for the dark history of the Medical Apartheid
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Sources:
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans
by Harriet A. Washington
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
hopkinsmedicine.org/henrietta-lacks
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
history.com/articles/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study
history.com/articles/the-father-of-modern-gynecology-performed-shocking-experiments-on-slaves
For over a century, Black bodies were used—examined, experimented on, and exploited in the name of science. From plantation doctors perfecting procedures on enslaved women without anesthesia, to the government letting Black men die slow deaths in Tuskegee, to the stolen cells of a unsuspecting Black women changing medical history.
This isn’t ancient history. It’s a pattern. And it shaped the way Black communities view medicine, hospitals, and doctors.
So join us today for the dark history of the Medical Apartheid
Audio Onemichistory.com
Follow me on Instagram: @onemic_history
Follow me on Substack: onemicblackhistorypodcast.substack.com
Follow me on Threads: threads.net/@onemic_history
Please support our Patreon: patreon.com/user?u=25697914
Buy me a Coffee buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m
Sources:
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans
by Harriet A. Washington
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
hopkinsmedicine.org/henrietta-lacks
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
history.com/articles/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study
history.com/articles/the-father-of-modern-gynecology-performed-shocking-experiments-on-slaves
