The Medical Establishment and Raceism in Medicine

During the antibellum period, doctors performed surgery on enslaved people to learn more about human anatomy. Doctor j marion simms conducted experimental surgeries on enslaved black women without anaesthesia. And then there's the tuskegee experiment where researchers didn't give black men treatment for syphilis. A startling 50 % of white medical students in residents believed in at least one of these false biological differences. Black women are more likely than white women to unnecessarily have their ovaries removed before mena pause a procedure that shortens life expectancy and maternal mortality rates are much higher for black women.