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Mickella Hardy
The Dark Side of Healthcare
23 minutes Posted Feb 19, 2024 at 6:17 pm.
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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