Episode 39 - Punching Racism: Anti-Blackness in Medicine
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