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23-05-2023, 01:46 PM
\By KAT STAFFORD, AARON MORRISON and ANNIE MA
PUBLISHED MAY 23, 2023
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Between 1845 and 1849, Sims carried out the once-experimental surgical treatment on a dozen enslaved women without the use of anesthesia.
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Sims’ belief that Black people could endure more pain than white people is considered a form of racism and still present in the field of medicine.
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this bias has adversely impacted the health outcomes of Black Americans. It’s also a source of Black American skepticism of modern medicine.
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Dr. Orlando J. Andy’s work at the University of Mississippi Medical School ...... testified that he performed 30 to 40 lobotomies and other brain operations on Black children and other people with behavioral problems who had been institutionalized. Although Andy said his operations were a last resort for patients who lived with uncontrolled destructive hyperactivity, the procedure was performed on institutionalized Black boys as young as 6. Some patients lived the rest of their lives with deteriorated intellectual capacity.
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Black children and teens are often perceived as much older than they are. Because of this bias known as “adultification,” they get viewed as less innocent and less deserving of empathy – resulting in harsher, disparate treatment in health care and other systems. The attitudes date back to slavery, when Black children as young as 2 were made to work and punished for developmentally appropriate child behavior
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these attitudes still drive disparities in outcomes for Black children and teens. A Yale study found Black children are 1.8 times more likely to be physically restrained in a hospital emergency room than white kids, a gap that may be driven by hospital staff’s view of Black children. Georgetown researchers have found that adultification of Black girls is linked to them being treated more harshly in school.
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University of Cincinnati researchers led an experiment from 1960 to 1972 that exposed about 90 poor, mostly Black, terminal cancer patients to extreme levels of radiation without their consent. The Department of Defense funded it as part of Cold War radiation experiments
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the study was meant to find experimental treatments for patients with inoperable cancer to see if he could stop the growth of tumors.
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many of the patients died after the radiation or experienced shortened life expectancies.
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Even in death, Black Americans haven’t escaped racist acts denying them the dignity their final resting places should have afforded them. Graveyard diggers were often hired to exhume and remove the bodies of Black people for the sake of medical research and studies, unbeknownst to family members.
https://apnews.com/article/medical-racis...b7095f434b
PUBLISHED MAY 23, 2023
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Between 1845 and 1849, Sims carried out the once-experimental surgical treatment on a dozen enslaved women without the use of anesthesia.
......
Sims’ belief that Black people could endure more pain than white people is considered a form of racism and still present in the field of medicine.
......
this bias has adversely impacted the health outcomes of Black Americans. It’s also a source of Black American skepticism of modern medicine.
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Dr. Orlando J. Andy’s work at the University of Mississippi Medical School ...... testified that he performed 30 to 40 lobotomies and other brain operations on Black children and other people with behavioral problems who had been institutionalized. Although Andy said his operations were a last resort for patients who lived with uncontrolled destructive hyperactivity, the procedure was performed on institutionalized Black boys as young as 6. Some patients lived the rest of their lives with deteriorated intellectual capacity.
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Black children and teens are often perceived as much older than they are. Because of this bias known as “adultification,” they get viewed as less innocent and less deserving of empathy – resulting in harsher, disparate treatment in health care and other systems. The attitudes date back to slavery, when Black children as young as 2 were made to work and punished for developmentally appropriate child behavior
......
these attitudes still drive disparities in outcomes for Black children and teens. A Yale study found Black children are 1.8 times more likely to be physically restrained in a hospital emergency room than white kids, a gap that may be driven by hospital staff’s view of Black children. Georgetown researchers have found that adultification of Black girls is linked to them being treated more harshly in school.
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University of Cincinnati researchers led an experiment from 1960 to 1972 that exposed about 90 poor, mostly Black, terminal cancer patients to extreme levels of radiation without their consent. The Department of Defense funded it as part of Cold War radiation experiments
......
the study was meant to find experimental treatments for patients with inoperable cancer to see if he could stop the growth of tumors.
......
many of the patients died after the radiation or experienced shortened life expectancies.
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Even in death, Black Americans haven’t escaped racist acts denying them the dignity their final resting places should have afforded them. Graveyard diggers were often hired to exhume and remove the bodies of Black people for the sake of medical research and studies, unbeknownst to family members.
https://apnews.com/article/medical-racis...b7095f434b
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