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A History of Human Guinea Pigs

Medical science has always had a lax relationship to consent – especially with the marginalized.
by Line Høj Høstrup via The Nib on September 5, 2018
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ANOTHER ANGLE

Similar themes through a different lens
NYC Parks Dept. workers prepare to remove the statue of Dr. James Marion Sims from Central Park, April 17, 2018.

NYC Will Move—But Not Remove—Statue of Gynecologist Who Experimented on Slaves

Some say the decision to move the statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims from Central Park to a Brooklyn cemetery is a "slap in the face."
by Kimberly Lawson via Broadly on April 16, 2018
MRI of a frontal leukotomy (synonym for lobotomy), performed in the 1970s as a treatment for a man with OCD.

A Brief and Awful History of the Lobotomy

Groundbreaking discoveries... but at what cost?
by Andrew Scull via Literary Hub on July 30, 2019
Developmental stages of a human embryo to a full-term fetus from an 1844 Geburtshulflicher Atlas.

Meanings and Materials of Miscarriage: How Babies in Jars Shaped Modern Pregnancy

In late-nineteenth-century America, the miscarried fetus became a scientific specimen.
by Shannon Withycombe via Nursing Clio on October 31, 2018
Detail from a painting of David Hosack’s Elgin Garden, ca. 1815.

Flower Power: Hamilton's Doctor and the Healing Power of Nature

In the early 1800s, David Hosack created one of the nation's first botanical gardens to further his pioneering medical research.
by Rebecca Rego Barry via The Public Domain Review on January 24, 2019
Henrietta Lacks (HeLa): The Mother of Modern Medicine by Kadir Nelson, oil on linen (2017).
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Henrietta Lacks, Immortalized

Henrietta Lacks's "immortal" cell line, called "HeLa," is used in everything from cancer treatments to vaccines.
by Allison Meier via JSTOR Daily on May 17, 2018
An advertisement for children's aspirin in the 'Reading Eagle' newspaper on June 15, 1952.

‘Candy Aspirin,’ Safety Caps, and the History of Children’s Drugs

The development, use, and marketing of medications for children in the 20th century.
by Cynthia Connolly via Penn Today on May 22, 2018
Elixir Sulfanilamide killed more than 100 people in the late 1930s, leading a string of regulatory reforms including expanded power for the Food and Drug Administration.

The Accidental Poison That Founded the Modern FDA

Elixir Sulfanilamide was a breakthrough antibiotic—until it killed more than 100 people.
by Julian G. West via The Atlantic on January 16, 2018
A statue of J. Marion Sims, a surgeon known as the father of modern gynecology, stands along an upper Manhattan street (August 23, 2017 in New York City)

Nature's Disastrous ‘Whitewashing’ Editorial

Science's ethos of self-correction should apply to how it thinks about its own history, too.
by Ross Andersen via The Atlantic on September 6, 2017
Public health doctor giving tenant family medicine for malaria near Colombia, South Carolina, 1939.

Black Subjectivity and the Origins of American Gynecology

A review of Deirdre Cooper Owens' "Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology."
by Rachel Zellars via Black Perspectives on May 31, 2018
John Brown, an enslaved man who endured a series of painful experiments by a Georgia doctor determined to prove that black skin was thicker than white skin.

How False Beliefs in Physical Racial Difference Still Live in Medicine Today

Biological fallacies were used to justify slavery. Why can’t doctors let them go?
by Linda Villarosa via New York Times Magazine on August 14, 2019
A nurse prepares a vaccination for a patient, 2009

Herd Immunity

Can the social contract be protected from a measles outbreak?
by Ann Neumann via The Baffler on October 7, 2019
An 1878 depiction of tobacco cultivation at Jamestown, ca. 1615.

America Cannot Bear to Bring Back Indentured Servitude

It’s a history lesson worth remembering: The exploitation of immigrant workers only encourages more—and worse—abuse.
by Ariel Ron, Dael Norwood via The Atlantic on March 28, 2018
Wounded soldiers in a hospital during the Civil War.

At the Start of the Civil War, Few Union Army Surgeons Had Ever Treated a Gunshot Wound

An exercise in understatement that would be funny if it weren't so tragic.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 6, 2016
Abortion opponents march in front of the Supreme Court in Washington during their 23rd annual march against the decision of Roe v. Wade, January 22, 1996.

Abortion's Past

Before Roe, abortion providers operated on the margins of medicine. They still do.
by Maureen Paul via Boston Review on May 16, 2019
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