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Medical Apartheid authored by Harriet A. Washington, hit the literary scene in 2007.
It informed, incited, enraged, and educated on the many medical atrocities done against African Americans since chattel slavery.
Many, that persist today, under a new face.
Let’s revisit....
It informed, incited, enraged, and educated on the many medical atrocities done against African Americans since chattel slavery.
Many, that persist today, under a new face.
Let’s revisit....
Plantation: A slaver said to a MD that “patty had “just died” after pretending to be ill for a year”.
1. MALINGERING: to fake an illness to escape work.
-Blacks are more likely to DIE from providers accusations of forgery of symptoms, just as patty. tallahassee.com/story/news/201…
1. MALINGERING: to fake an illness to escape work.
-Blacks are more likely to DIE from providers accusations of forgery of symptoms, just as patty. tallahassee.com/story/news/201…
J. Marion Sims.
History knows him as “the father of modern gynecology”, but he remains a monster to black women and infants
He acquired 11 slaves & operated without anesthesia, claiming that blacks didn’t feel pain.
Sims used black infants for dangerous experiments in tetany
History knows him as “the father of modern gynecology”, but he remains a monster to black women and infants
He acquired 11 slaves & operated without anesthesia, claiming that blacks didn’t feel pain.
Sims used black infants for dangerous experiments in tetany
The present day issue of the Black person, pain medication, and perceived beliefs.
How many of us have experienced saying pain is 10/10 only to be given Ibuprofen?
Pain is ALWAYS subjective, but this isn’t how black pain is perceived.
This, unchanged
journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/pain-a…
How many of us have experienced saying pain is 10/10 only to be given Ibuprofen?
Pain is ALWAYS subjective, but this isn’t how black pain is perceived.
This, unchanged
journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/pain-a…
Tuskegee was not the worst:
Black babies with congenital defects were allowed to die, hysterectomies were done without consent, and the government encouraged and funded involuntary sterilization.
Present day, black women continue with these disparities
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Black babies with congenital defects were allowed to die, hysterectomies were done without consent, and the government encouraged and funded involuntary sterilization.
Present day, black women continue with these disparities
s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.d…
Between 1987 and 1991, researchers administered the experimental Edmonton-Zagreb vaccine against measles to Black and Hispanic babies in Cali
-Parents didn’t know they were experimental
-2000 Haitian kids died after same vaccine
-even AFTER deaths Cali kids were STILL given vac
-Parents didn’t know they were experimental
-2000 Haitian kids died after same vaccine
-even AFTER deaths Cali kids were STILL given vac
Black boys were given fenfluramine. A drug never tested on children under twelve, was known to produce side effects and cause heart valve damage in 30% It was meant to “control violence” via Serotonin
Now, since ADHD is mainstream, our kids go undertreated
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Now, since ADHD is mainstream, our kids go undertreated
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American medicine has been built upon the abuse of black people.
-race based Norplant marketing
-black infant/maternal mortality rates
-Tuskegee Syphilis Study
-“crack baby” epidemic a myth
-cancer cells injected into inmates
-fenfluramine study
-etc
Research these family.
GM
-race based Norplant marketing
-black infant/maternal mortality rates
-Tuskegee Syphilis Study
-“crack baby” epidemic a myth
-cancer cells injected into inmates
-fenfluramine study
-etc
Research these family.
GM
