Ethical Data Collection and Unethical Histories

Chapter 7 of Medical Apartheid by medical ethicist Harriet Washington. This chapter takes a deep dive into the specifics of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. It also discusses some of the roots of the β€œlazy minority” stereotype.

  • Option 1: Read through Bobst or Course Reserves 
  • Option 2: Listen to Chapter 7.1 and 7.2 (chapter ends halfway through the second recording)

Chapter 8 of Medical Apartheid by medical ethicist Harriet Washington. This chapter takes a deep dive into issues of reproductive control and race. 

  • Option 1: Read through Bobst or Course Reserves 
  • Option 2: Listen to Chapter 8.1 (chapter starts @ 35:44) and 8.2(ends around 40 minutes)

Harriet Washington on Democracy Now! (news show): 

HHS.gov’s 1986 video on the Belmont Report (YouTube)

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, by Deirdre Cooper Owens (UGA Press)