Show notes
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 gynecology2. The “Immortal” Cells of Henrietta Lacks3. 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 GynecologyThe ‘Father of Modern Gynecology’ Performed Shocking Experiments on Enslaved Women | History ChannelMedical Exploitation of Black Women | Equal Justice Initiative Henrietta LacksMedical ExploitationHenrietta Lacks: Science Must Right a Historical Wrong | NatureHenrietta Lacks’ descendants reach settlement over the use of her ‘stolen’ cells | npr Holmesburg PrisonPhiladelphia apologizes for experiments on Black inmates| npr Arkansas Detention CenterArkansas jails’ ivermectin experiments recall historical medical abuse of imprisoned minorities | the Guardian



