Week 6 notes: History of Bias: Poc

 

Father of modern gynecology J Marion sims

Preformed experiments in gynecology on 14 black women without consent

Treated VVF through these experiments

1845 to 1849

No anesthesia- invented by that time

Core of medical advances

VVF- look into this

Thomas Jefferson also wrote a few things along the lines that black people endure better and that has been in textbooks for a long time

The most common misconceptions are that black people have less sensitive nerve endings and have higher tolerance for pain

1792 thought black people were immune to yellow fever

Same thing in 1870s with smallpox

source:  American medicine was built on the backs of slaves. And it still affects how doctors treat patients today. Washington Post Kathleen Bachynsk  June 4, 2018

segregation affected medicine extremely 

The number of black physicians has never come close to matching their demographic share of the total population