This is a well written and thought provoking article about this.
This is a well written and thought provoking article about this.
You know how else the medical and research establishments continue to fail to address these legacies? The required ethics courses always talk about Tuskeegee and syphilis. This is the example given of "why black people don't trust the medical establishment". That was a study done on black men. Men. There are many reasons why it should still be archetypal as an example of unethical medical and research behavior. Nonetheless.
Of course, it is possible that now they may include information about Henrietta Lacks and HeLa cells. That's gotten a lot of attention since Rebecca Skloot's book came out. Rebecca Skloot is white. I'm sure that isn't relevant, at all.
Meanwhile, nobody even mentions this guy. At all. Maybe if you do a whole ObGyn residency they do? This would mean talking about a white man, BMOC, and the totally crappy way that people still treat ALL women medically, and how much worse they treat black women. The fact that he thought women even worthy of medical attention in his day and age probably makes him a big, damn hero. No, really. Remember, all women were legally the property of their father or husband at that time. Women were not persons. Why would you waste good time, money, and science on women? There's always another one.
This absolutely should be part of the ethics discussions. Because not only, and most importantly, is it about the treatment of human beings as non-persons, and specifically slavery and the abuse of slaves, it is about the attitudes toward and treatment of women in medicine. So, yes. It should be taught first and foremost as yet another reason why there is a totally well-reasoned and long-standing distrust of the white, male medical establishment for its abuse of black persons. Unavoidably, it will then secondarily raise the issue of the treatment of women, and the utter disregard with which they are treated still by the medical establishment.
And I promise you, there will be more than one person in the room who mocks, dismisses, and objects to the entire discussion. Those people are particularly why these things have to be taught.
https://rewire.news/article/2017/08/24/statue-rethinking-j-marion-sims-legacy/
https://rewire.news/article/2017/08/24/statue-rethinking-j-marion-sims-legacy/
You know how else the medical and research establishments continue to fail to address these legacies? The required ethics courses always talk about Tuskeegee and syphilis. This is the example given of "why black people don't trust the medical establishment". That was a study done on black men. Men. There are many reasons why it should still be archetypal as an example of unethical medical and research behavior. Nonetheless.
Of course, it is possible that now they may include information about Henrietta Lacks and HeLa cells. That's gotten a lot of attention since Rebecca Skloot's book came out. Rebecca Skloot is white. I'm sure that isn't relevant, at all.
Meanwhile, nobody even mentions this guy. At all. Maybe if you do a whole ObGyn residency they do? This would mean talking about a white man, BMOC, and the totally crappy way that people still treat ALL women medically, and how much worse they treat black women. The fact that he thought women even worthy of medical attention in his day and age probably makes him a big, damn hero. No, really. Remember, all women were legally the property of their father or husband at that time. Women were not persons. Why would you waste good time, money, and science on women? There's always another one.
This absolutely should be part of the ethics discussions. Because not only, and most importantly, is it about the treatment of human beings as non-persons, and specifically slavery and the abuse of slaves, it is about the attitudes toward and treatment of women in medicine. So, yes. It should be taught first and foremost as yet another reason why there is a totally well-reasoned and long-standing distrust of the white, male medical establishment for its abuse of black persons. Unavoidably, it will then secondarily raise the issue of the treatment of women, and the utter disregard with which they are treated still by the medical establishment.
And I promise you, there will be more than one person in the room who mocks, dismisses, and objects to the entire discussion. Those people are particularly why these things have to be taught.
https://rewire.news/article/2017/08/24/statue-rethinking-j-marion-sims-legacy/
https://rewire.news/article/2017/08/24/statue-rethinking-j-marion-sims-legacy/
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