Episode 39 - Punching Racism: Anti-Blackness in Medicine
Jess and Abby’s Lousy Beautiful Town
English - July 12, 2020 18:51 - 1 hour - 82.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsFilm Reviews TV & Film TV Reviews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 38 - Subtweeting Social Workers: Anti-Blackness in Mental Health
Next Episode: Episode 40- Anti-Blackness in Medicine, Part II
This week we continue to put our fists through the American healthcare system. But first we gotta talk some history, particularly the medical racism surrounding the Tuskegee syphilis studies, Dr. James Marion Sims, and Henrietta Lacks. cw: slavery, cw: sexual violence, cw: racial violence, cw: gynecological violence
Further Reading: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot