By Color of Change, Photo: Getty Images, Black Entertainment Television, February 28, 2022
Despite advances over the decades in medicine and medical technology, for many years the healthcare industry has delivered negligent care rooted in systemic bias to Black communities. There is a long history of mistreatment and exploitation of Black people in the health care system. Black patients are more likely to experience systemic racism in health care, according to several studies.
Below are four major historical incidents of racism in medicine that are permanently cemented in medical studies.
Beginning in 1932 and lasting until 1972, 600 Black men in Tuskegee, Ala., were experimented on to see the effects of syphilis in the human body in a government-sanctioned project. According to historical records, 399 were infected and another 201 were uninfected as a control, most of them poor sharecroppers from the area.
Comments (0)