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A History of Human Guinea Pigs
Medical science has always had a lax relationship to consent – especially with the marginalized.
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Line Høj Høstrup
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The Nib
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September 5, 2018
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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."
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Kimberly Lawson
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Broadly
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April 16, 2018
Meanings and Materials of Miscarriage: How Babies in Jars Shaped Modern Pregnancy
In late-nineteenth-century America, the miscarried fetus became a scientific specimen.
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Shannon Withycombe
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Nursing Clio
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October 31, 2018
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.
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Rebecca Rego Barry
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The Public Domain Review
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January 24, 2019
The Accidental Poison That Founded the Modern FDA
Elixir Sulfanilamide was a breakthrough antibiotic—until it killed more than 100 people.
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Julian G. West
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The Atlantic
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January 16, 2018
The US Medical System is Still Haunted by Slavery
Medicine’s dark history helps explain why black mothers are dying at alarming rates.
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Ranjani Chakraborty
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Vox
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December 7, 2017
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.
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Daina Ramey Berry
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New York Times
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February 3, 2018
Black Subjectivity and the Origins of American Gynecology
A review of Deirdre Cooper Owens' "Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology."
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Rachel Zellars
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Black Perspectives
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May 31, 2018
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
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The Atlantic
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September 6, 2017
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.
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Sarah Mirk
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Alexandra Beguez
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The Nib
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September 10, 2018
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
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Dael Norwood
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The Atlantic
on
March 28, 2018
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.
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Rebecca Onion
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Slate
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July 6, 2016
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