
Racism in Health: the harms of biased medicine
Nature Podcast
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Black People Have Less Lungs Than White People
Cartwright claimed that black people had lower lung capacities than white people. He even hypothesized that it was a mental illness which he called Repetomania that caused enslaved people to desire freedom. His work looked really like science and even I've found it cited as late as 2010 in a prominent US journal, their racism gets into the science they do. And yet these ideas quickly proliferated and were used to justify slavery using science.
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