Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Medical Racism in African American Studies






Greetings, Class Community.

Medical racism in an understated discussion in African American Studies.  We explored this topic briefly in class. Please consider answering one or all of the following questions:

How does any of the information our class community discussed affirm, change or complicate your understanding of African Americans, African American Studies, or American Culture?    

How does any of the information our class community discussed affirm, change or complicate your understanding of medical history, birth control campaigns, and medical advancements in the US?

How does any of the information our class community discussed affirm, change or complicate your understanding of the history of the feminist movement?


Please don't hesitate to review your notes or research any additional information before commenting. 

4 comments:

  1. I always knew that birth control was a popular thing in the United States. The thing that really shocked me was the forced birth control and going to the hospital for a simple treatment could lead to someone not being able to have kids. It was also interesting to find out that many criminals and patients in the psych wards were sterilized as well.

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    1. Yes, it was shocking to me when I first began to research the phenomena. I also found it interesting that some states were more obsessed with sterilizations than others.

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  2. After our class discussion, I feel that my views kind of changed on how I view the birth control methods that we have today. I never really knew anything on our medical history and the practices performed. What really shocked me was learning about the Tuskegee experiment and how they were basically using African Americans as lab rats and these males were not even aware of what was really being done to their bodies. How can it ever be okay for something like this to go on for years and there never be any action against those who were administrating this research.

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  3. I had this discussion in both my Inequalities in society class as well as this one and it was pretty sad that they used humans to test on for example giving the black men in the army syphilis without them knowing it. Other cases as the colleges students who would drink black womans breast milk and compare it to a animal . these things in history that occurred are many reasons why minorities are afraid to go to the doctor due to maltreatment from the past.

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