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The most infamous example of Sims' medical malpractice was his research on vesicovaginal fistulas. Sims acquired four female slaves and used their bodies in order to find a cure for the complication of childbirth. Sims put the slave women through painful surgeries without giving any of them anesthesia and he was eventually able to find the cure.
It is by acknowledging the historical facts of centuries of medical abuse of African Americans, and by holding our medical institutions accountable with lessons learned on racism in medicine, that health equity can ultimately deliver life-saving research for all.
14 kwi 2020 · It shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of blacks, and a view that they were biologically inferior, oversexed, and unfit for adult responsibilities.
18 lis 2020 · Earlier examples include Onesimus, who provided Cotton Mather with knowledge about smallpox vaccinations, and James McCune Smith, who went to Scotland for his medical education and, among other accomplishments, disproved the claim from the 1840 U.S. Census about the mental health impacts of freedom for African Americans.
9 sty 2007 · Moving into the twentieth century, it shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of blacks, and the view that they were biologically inferior, oversexed, and unfit for adult responsibilities.
29 sty 2007 · National Archives and Records Administration. The medical exploitation of African Americans over centuries has caused many black patients to mistrust the medical industry. Author Harriet...
19 sty 2007 · They also had a variety of conditions for which — a good example is reproductive health. All of the early important reproductive health advances were devised by perfecting experiment on black...
