The Dark Side of Healthcare

Join me in this week’s episode as I discuss four accounts of the dark side of healthcare and medical experiments. Which case did you already know about? Which one surprised you the most? 

1. The founding of modern gynecology

2. The “Immortal” Cells of Henrietta Lacks

3. Holmesburg Prison (Philadelphia, PA)

4. Arkansas Detention Center

 

Resources/References/Recommendations:

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A Washington

 

Modern Gynecology

The ‘Father of Modern Gynecology’ Performed Shocking Experiments on Enslaved Women | History Channel

Medical Exploitation of Black Women | Equal Justice Initiative

 

Henrietta Lacks

Medical Exploitation

Henrietta Lacks: Science Must Right a Historical Wrong | Nature

Henrietta Lacks’ descendants reach settlement over the use of her ‘stolen’ cells | npr

 

Holmesburg Prison

Philadelphia apologizes for experiments on Black inmates| npr

 

Arkansas Detention Center

Arkansas jails’ ivermectin experiments recall historical medical abuse of imprisoned minorities | the Guardian