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Limited Series- pt.1 "The Abusive Relationship Between the Black Community & American Medicine"

Limited Series- pt.1 "The Abusive Relationship Between the Black Community & American Medicine"

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In the time where Americans enslaved millions of people to use for

labor and, well anything else they wanted, doctors frequently bought

Black people to be used as specimens. Authors and historians

James Breeden and Todd Sonitt wrote about this in more detail in

their journal article The Use of Blacks for Medical Experimentation,

1982. There were also places referred to as “Negro Hospitals” which

were closely linked to slave catchers and traders were the atrocities

that occurred there can barely be imagined. These “hospitals” often

offered “Cash for Negroes”. It was at one of these hospitals where

Dr. J Marion Sims would begin his career...

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