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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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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
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
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
Statue of J. Marion Sims, the father of gynecology who experimented on enslaved women, in Central Park, NYC.

The US Medical System is Still Haunted by Slavery

Medicine’s dark history helps explain why black mothers are dying at alarming rates.
by Ranjani Chakraborty via Vox on December 7, 2017
Slave cemetery in the Georgetown neighborhood, Washington, D.C.

Beyond the Slave Trade, the Cadaver Trade

For much of the 19th century, when medical schools needed specimens, they relied on the dead bodies of enslaved people.
by Daina Ramey Berry via New York Times on February 3, 2018
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
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
Students at a dissection at the University of North Carolina, ca. 1900.

Blackface Is Just a Symptom of American Medicine’s Racist Past

The study of medicine is rife with racist assumptions and experiments that still shape health outcomes today.
by Christopher D.E. Willoughby via Made by History on February 12, 2019

The Dark History of Hysteria

One diagnosis fits all! If you're a woman.
by Sarah Mirk, Alexandra Beguez via The Nib on September 10, 2018
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
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