February 13, 2023 • 18 mins
Your Host: Shyra DeJuan
is challenging you to be open to understand African Americans have undergone unethical, inhumane and unjust treatment in America. However, African Americans have great contributions to healing, health and medical research! There is so much more to be uncovered about true history. If you are an Ally for people of color, know that your awareness matters! It is time to practice a mind elevation and shift on our world view relating to people of color! We must understand that the breakthroughs in research studies, the human cells and science has been deeply rooted in African American Culture. For the black community, understand that the contributions to health and medicine helps save lives of all races in the United States and the whole World! We all benefit from the knowledge of historical facts. We must exude the same peace, comfort and love! Please listen and celebrate Black History month!!
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(00:02):
Uh, all smiles champions,welcome to mind, elevation
health and wealth.
I am your host Sharonda one, aneducator, emotional healer and
entrepreneur.
For this month, we will becelebrating black history
culture and how we can healworldviews by being an ally.
But understanding, and byincreasing our knowledge of
(00:23):
blackness black ish and blackexcellence, we will also learn
how across all cultures, we areall the same kind of different
this session.
We will exploreAfrican-Americans contributions
to healing health.
And medical research.
(00:44):
Session 11 contributions tohealing.
Health.
And medical research.
Listen and listen wellchampions, whether you have
faith in God, faith in theuniverse or faith in self, it is
important for you to know thetrue history of how the United
States of America has benefitedin the medical and health field.
(01:06):
From black Americans, we willdiscuss how black doctors and
scientists were pioneers ofmedicine and innovative as
surgeons and in health andwellness.
Extremely meaningfulcontributions.
However, we will also discussthe history of many unethical
and unconsented contributions inresearch.
(01:26):
Black Americans are forced intowithout their knowledge.
The dark side of medicalresearch.
Let's begin with Dr.
Daniel Hill Williams.
The third.
Born in 1856 and died in 1931.
Discrimination in the 18hundreds, African American
citizens were barred from beingadmitted to hospitals and black
(01:49):
doctors would not allow to worka staff in hospitals.
So Dr.
Dan Williams, his patientscalled him.
Dr.
Dan changed the game by openingProvidence hospital and training
school for nurses, the firstmedical facility in the nation
to have an interracial staff.
In 1893, Williams became one ofthe first people to successfully
(02:11):
perform open heart surgery.
In 1894, he was appointed thechief surgeon of the Freedman's
hospital.
And in 1895, he founded thenational medical association for
black medical practitioners.
As the chief surgeon at theFreedman's hospital.
He provided care for formerlyenslaved African-Americans.
This information was found onbiography.com.
(02:34):
We also have Dr.
Jane Cooke Wright born in 1919and died in 2013.
She lived to be 94 years old.
She was the firstAfrican-American woman to be
named associate Dean of anationally recognized medical
institution in 1967.
At that time, she was a highestranking African-American woman
at a us medical school.
(02:55):
Her research is still being usedtoday with cancer treatment.
She implemented a comprehensiveprogram to study stroke, heart
disease and instructed doctorsin chemotherapy.
Based on healthy living blogfrom February 8th, 2020 to
listing several healthcarecontributions made by black
medical innovators will listnumber one, Dr.
(03:16):
James McCune, MIS who paved theway for future black physicians
back in 1837.
Dr.
Charles drew who developed newways to store blood plasma for
blood transfusions.
Number three, Dr.
Oldest boy.
who improved the pacemaker withhis invention that installed a
control unit for the pacemaker.
(03:37):
The pacemaker is a device thatdetects when your heart is
beating irregular.
Number four, Dr.
Ben Carson y'all remember himwhen he was running for
Republican party presidency backin 2015.
He should've just stayed in themedical field.
Yes.
I just threw shade on Dr.
Carson, but anyways, he was notgreat in politics for the black
community, but he did.
(03:57):
I perform the first successfulseparation of twins that were
joined together at the back oftheir heads.
Back in 1987, number five.
Recently Dr.
Kids Mika say Corbett was one ofthe leading scientists to
develop the modern COVID 19vaccine corporate has worked
with the vaccines researchcenters since 2014.
(04:20):
There's a long list of blackinnovators in science.
However, this podcast will beshort and sweet.
We owe immense gratitude tothose innovators who have helped
advance medical knowledge andExcel, careers of future
physicians and save lives ofmany patients.
We live in a country wherehealthcare is field with racial
injustices, such as unequalaccess segregation, and history
(04:44):
of deeply unethical testing.
So we will now discuss the darkside of historically black
contributions to health andmedicine.
I always like to give avocabulary word and definition.
This week's word will becadaver, spelled C a D a V E R.
Uh, cadaver is defined as a deadbody, especially a human body to
(05:08):
be dissected for research, acorpse.
We will start with discussingthe bones of a slave known as
Mr.
Fortune, mr.
Fortune was owned by a whitebone specialist named Dr.
Porter.
When the slave Mr.
Fortune died instead of Dr.
Porter, giving Mr.
Fortunate, proper burial.
He boiled Mr.
(05:29):
Fortune skeleton in order topreserve and study it.
His body was used in Dr.
Porter school for anatomy.
Dr.
Porter first dissected Mr.
Fortune to study and teachstudents before eventually
donating his skeleton to amuseum.
Unfortunately due to thisunethical behavior, Mr.
(05:50):
Fortune did not get a properburial until over 200 years
after his death in the year of2013.
Mr fortunate may have died orbeen murdered and approximately
1798 in the hands of his slaveowner, Dr.
Porter, who decided to use Mr.
Fortune as a scientific specimenin his medical school.
(06:11):
There were laws againstdissecting human cadavers.
However, in Massachusetts,certain executed criminals could
be dissected for research, eventhough it was controversial.
As we continue to discuss theunlawful use of cadavers.
Back in 1844, the faculty of themedical department of Hampton
(06:32):
Sydney college.
Now the Virginia Commonwealthuniversity school of medicine.
Medical students dissect it andpractice surgical procedures on
stolen cadavers.
The medical department wouldoccasionally Rob graves to tain
cadavers for students todissect.
You're thinking what I wasthinking when I was reading this
(06:54):
article, what grades were theyable to Rob?
What graves did they target forthis illegal activity?
You guessed it.
They went to Richmond.
Virginia is African Americanburial grounds.
When the cadavers were no longeruseful for educational purposes,
these disrespectful people wouldjust dump the cadavers in a
(07:14):
nearby whale.
Then in 19.
94.
They started construction tobuild a medical building and
discovered the well containingskeletal remains 25 feet below.
East Marshall street, whichhappens to be the historic site
of St.
Phillip hospital, the formersegregated facility for
(07:35):
African-Americans.
Archeologists were able tocollect the bones and sent the
collections to the Smithsonianinstitution the summer of 1994.
The remains were not spoken upand forgotten about until two
decades later, when an interestin the remains were bought back
into light by Dr.
Sean Please film in 2011 calleduntil the well runs dry.
(08:00):
Medicine and the exploitation ofblack bodies.
Due to this new found awareness,the project called east Marshall
street.
Well, project.
On November 25th, 2019 VCU andthe Richmond community.
Welcome back the remains fromthe Smithsonian institution with
respect and dignity.
These individuals were deniedbasic human rights in both life
(08:23):
and death.
For the sake of unethicalmedical studies in the United
States, the vcu.edu websitestill continuously updates their
website for the east Marshallstreet.
Well, project.
The most commonly known tosqeaky research study of
syphilis research for my youngeraudience, syphilis is a sexually
(08:43):
transmitted disease that affectsalmost any organ or tissue in
the body, especially thegenitals skin.
Mucus membranes.
Orta.
Brain liver bones and nerves.
This experiment began in 1932.
And lasted for 40 years.
This is the most racist, anethical inhumane experiment.
(09:04):
The research was performed onhundreds of black men with low
income.
These young black men wereoffered free meals, free
healthcare and free burialstipends.
However, the men were unaware ofthe type of tests that were
being performed on them.
They trusted the United Statespublic health service and the
Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
(09:26):
If you're wondering, like, I'mwondering how do these men get
tricked into this study?
Well, research has told themthey were being treated for bad
blood.
Most of these men had never seena doctor before.
So they trusted the physicianswere treating them properly.
However, the doctors were nottreating the men infected with
syphilis because they wanted toresearch the effects the disease
(09:48):
actually had on the body.
If syphilis went untreated.
The study found it causedpermanent organ damage
paralysis, blindness.
Severe mental illness andultimately it calls death.
In 1947, based on the studiesand research, it was discovered
that penicillin was an activetreatment for syphilis.
(10:10):
But it was never offered tothese young black men during the
remaining 25 years of the study,because due to their race, The
men were viewed as less thanhuman.
They were just used like labrats.
Their purpose was only to showthe longterm effects of
syphilis.
The deadly disease.
The documents of this study werenot Leite until 1972.
(10:32):
It was also made known that themen who thought they were
receiving treatment during thestudy were also unknowingly
spreading the disease to theirsexual partners.
Hundreds of the men died fromthe disease and the last living
survivor died in 2004.
This study.
I was an example of racialinjustice due to this study.
(10:53):
Many African-Americans do nottrust the healthcare system.
Even still today.
Uh, doctors historically,de-humanized black people during
treatment.
This next injustice is in lovingmemory.
Of Henrietta lacks and muchrespect to her loved ones,
family and friends that arestill suffering her loss.
(11:13):
In my opinion.
Henrietta cells are proof thatAfrica.
As the motherland and the motherof all mothers was that of an
African woman.
The only human cell line able toreproduce.
Uh, indefinitely.
Henrietta cells are known asHeala cells and are still being
used in research around theworld.
(11:34):
Although her cells and thestructure of herself has saved
many lives.
Her life was taken too soon andher cells were stolen and
research without her permissionand consent.
The researcher, Dr.
George Guy at John Hopkinsmedical center used our sales to
develop the polio vaccine andproduce many other drugs for
other diseases, includingParkinson's.
(11:56):
Leukemia and the flu.
Although biotech andpharmaceutical companies have
profited, commercialized andsold Henrietta sales.
Ms.
Henrietta lacks family has neverreceived any money or benefits.
Based on that research.
Hey, you.
The champion for life changes.
(12:17):
I'm challenging you to open, tounderstanding that in a world of
science, technology, researchand innovators black lives
matter, althoughAfrican-Americans have undergone
unethical, inhumane and unjusttreatment in America.
There are so much more to beuncovered about our true
history.
Even if you notice the timelineof the events and dates, what is
(12:41):
done in the dark always comes tolight and sexual beings will
allow justice to surface truth,to be acknowledged and humanity
to be restored.
It is so important to teachyoung children.
Or your future children, truehistory.
So these systematic racialinjustice don't continue to
happen to any race of people.
(13:04):
I'm only discussing what hashappened here in America.
We know these things happen allover the world.
However, even though some of themedical breakthroughs were
performed without consent, thesacrifices and contributions of
the African-American and blackpeople play a huge role in our
overall healing, health andmedical research.
(13:27):
Each week I promote a book andauthors that have impacted my
life or help me heal byincreasing my knowledge and
awareness of experiences outsideof my own.
I'm suggesting three books foryou to further your research.
The first book is called theOregon thieves.
this book is covering theinequalities and misusing
cadavers and disrespectfully.
(13:49):
Disposing of the human remains.
In this book, the journalistchip Jones explores how organ
transplant in the U S revealsinequalities and racism, not
just in healthcare, but in otherrelated fields as well.
The second book is the immortallife of Henrietta lacks.
This book was written by RebeccaSkloot.
(14:10):
She goes in detail explainingHenry at his life and how his
cells were taken without herknowledge, how Henrietta lacks
cells has become one of the mostimportant tools in medicine, the
cells.
Sales or the first immortalhuman cells grown in culture and
the cells are still alive today.
The third book is called medicalapartheid by Harriet, a
(14:33):
Washington Harriet Washington isa medical.
Ethicist and journalists thatgoes in detail about abusive
medical practices in whichAfrican-Americans have been
subjected to.
She describes how both slavesand Friedman were used in the
hospitals for experimentsconducted without their
knowledge.
A tradition that continues todayin some black populations.
(14:55):
She also discusses grave,robbings, unauthorized
autopsies, and dissection, thepseudo science of eugenics.
Please make sure to go to thepodcast notes and click on the
links to further your knowledgeand support my podcast.
And the authors also, pleaseleave a five star review on
apple podcasts.
If you enjoy spending time withme every self-care Sunday.
(15:19):
You are now a champion forhealing and change.
I was not able to covereverything in this session.
So here are some black historyresearch suggestions that you
can do on your own, as itrelates to the African-American
contributions to healing,health, and medical research.
Listen and listen.
Well, There's so many unethicalhistorical facts of the
(15:42):
contributions of black people.
Number one, bodies of slavesbeing used as cadavers and
executed prisoners bodies beingused unethically.
Number two human trafficking andOregon's being stolen to perform
unlawful surgeries.
Kidnapped black childrenOregon's being sold on the black
market.
(16:03):
Number three graves being robbedfor medical research.
Number four.
Unethical mental andpsychological procedures being
performed on black prisoninmates.
Number five human sales beingstolen and sold to biotech
companies.
Number six, black women beingsterilized with the forced
(16:23):
sterilization and reproductiveabuse during the eugenics
movement.
Let me explain eugenics.
Negative eugenics is defined astrying to improve the quality of
the human species by stoppingreproduction of people that have
undesirable traits also known asselective breeding.
An example would be if.
(16:44):
The society decided they didn'twant to breed black women that
had mental illness.
They will go to every blackwoman that has some form of
mental illness and stop her frombeing able to reproduce by
sterilizing her.
Or taking out her organs orperforming a hysterectomy
without her knowledge.
If you are an ally for the blackcommunity, understand the
(17:06):
contributions to health andmedicine has helped save lives
of all races in the UnitedStates and the whole world.
We all benefit from theknowledge of historical facts.
We must exude the same peace,comfort, and love.
Please continue to celebrateblack history month with an open
heart.
(17:30):
Elevate your mind.
Be open to health and wealth.
Trust the healing process,sometimes healing hurts, but
when completely healed youbecome a stronger.
Wiser and amazing human.
That was heavy.
Let's relax and breathe.
Breathe in love.
(17:52):
Breathe out.
Love.
Breathe in peace.
Breathe out peace.
Breathe in love.
Share love.
(18:15):
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Uh, all smiles champions,welcome to mind, elevation
health and wealth.
I am your host Sharonda one, aneducator, emotional healer and
entrepreneur.
For this month, we will becelebrating black history
culture and how we can healworldviews by being an ally.
But understanding, and byincreasing our knowledge of
(00:23):
blackness black ish and blackexcellence, we will also learn
how across all cultures, we areall the same kind of different
this session.
We will exploreAfrican-Americans contributions
to healing health.
And medical research.
(00:44):
Session 11 contributions tohealing.
Health.
And medical research.
Listen and listen wellchampions, whether you have
faith in God, faith in theuniverse or faith in self, it is
important for you to know thetrue history of how the United
States of America has benefitedin the medical and health field.
(01:06):
From black Americans, we willdiscuss how black doctors and
scientists were pioneers ofmedicine and innovative as
surgeons and in health andwellness.
Extremely meaningfulcontributions.
However, we will also discussthe history of many unethical
and unconsented contributions inresearch.
(01:26):
Black Americans are forced intowithout their knowledge.
The dark side of medicalresearch.
Let's begin with Dr.
Daniel Hill Williams.
The third.
Born in 1856 and died in 1931.
Discrimination in the 18hundreds, African American
citizens were barred from beingadmitted to hospitals and black
(01:49):
doctors would not allow to worka staff in hospitals.
So Dr.
Dan Williams, his patientscalled him.
Dr.
Dan changed the game by openingProvidence hospital and training
school for nurses, the firstmedical facility in the nation
to have an interracial staff.
In 1893, Williams became one ofthe first people to successfully
(02:11):
perform open heart surgery.
In 1894, he was appointed thechief surgeon of the Freedman's
hospital.
And in 1895, he founded thenational medical association for
black medical practitioners.
As the chief surgeon at theFreedman's hospital.
He provided care for formerlyenslaved African-Americans.
This information was found onbiography.com.
(02:34):
We also have Dr.
Jane Cooke Wright born in 1919and died in 2013.
She lived to be 94 years old.
She was the firstAfrican-American woman to be
named associate Dean of anationally recognized medical
institution in 1967.
At that time, she was a highestranking African-American woman
at a us medical school.
(02:55):
Her research is still being usedtoday with cancer treatment.
She implemented a comprehensiveprogram to study stroke, heart
disease and instructed doctorsin chemotherapy.
Based on healthy living blogfrom February 8th, 2020 to
listing several healthcarecontributions made by black
medical innovators will listnumber one, Dr.
(03:16):
James McCune, MIS who paved theway for future black physicians
back in 1837.
Dr.
Charles drew who developed newways to store blood plasma for
blood transfusions.
Number three, Dr.
Oldest boy.
who improved the pacemaker withhis invention that installed a
control unit for the pacemaker.
(03:37):
The pacemaker is a device thatdetects when your heart is
beating irregular.
Number four, Dr.
Ben Carson y'all remember himwhen he was running for
Republican party presidency backin 2015.
He should've just stayed in themedical field.
Yes.
I just threw shade on Dr.
Carson, but anyways, he was notgreat in politics for the black
community, but he did.
(03:57):
I perform the first successfulseparation of twins that were
joined together at the back oftheir heads.
Back in 1987, number five.
Recently Dr.
Kids Mika say Corbett was one ofthe leading scientists to
develop the modern COVID 19vaccine corporate has worked
with the vaccines researchcenters since 2014.
(04:20):
There's a long list of blackinnovators in science.
However, this podcast will beshort and sweet.
We owe immense gratitude tothose innovators who have helped
advance medical knowledge andExcel, careers of future
physicians and save lives ofmany patients.
We live in a country wherehealthcare is field with racial
injustices, such as unequalaccess segregation, and history
(04:44):
of deeply unethical testing.
So we will now discuss the darkside of historically black
contributions to health andmedicine.
I always like to give avocabulary word and definition.
This week's word will becadaver, spelled C a D a V E R.
Uh, cadaver is defined as a deadbody, especially a human body to
(05:08):
be dissected for research, acorpse.
We will start with discussingthe bones of a slave known as
Mr.
Fortune, mr.
Fortune was owned by a whitebone specialist named Dr.
Porter.
When the slave Mr.
Fortune died instead of Dr.
Porter, giving Mr.
Fortunate, proper burial.
He boiled Mr.
(05:29):
Fortune skeleton in order topreserve and study it.
His body was used in Dr.
Porter school for anatomy.
Dr.
Porter first dissected Mr.
Fortune to study and teachstudents before eventually
donating his skeleton to amuseum.
Unfortunately due to thisunethical behavior, Mr.
(05:50):
Fortune did not get a properburial until over 200 years
after his death in the year of2013.
Mr fortunate may have died orbeen murdered and approximately
1798 in the hands of his slaveowner, Dr.
Porter, who decided to use Mr.
Fortune as a scientific specimenin his medical school.
(06:11):
There were laws againstdissecting human cadavers.
However, in Massachusetts,certain executed criminals could
be dissected for research, eventhough it was controversial.
As we continue to discuss theunlawful use of cadavers.
Back in 1844, the faculty of themedical department of Hampton
(06:32):
Sydney college.
Now the Virginia Commonwealthuniversity school of medicine.
Medical students dissect it andpractice surgical procedures on
stolen cadavers.
The medical department wouldoccasionally Rob graves to tain
cadavers for students todissect.
You're thinking what I wasthinking when I was reading this
(06:54):
article, what grades were theyable to Rob?
What graves did they target forthis illegal activity?
You guessed it.
They went to Richmond.
Virginia is African Americanburial grounds.
When the cadavers were no longeruseful for educational purposes,
these disrespectful people wouldjust dump the cadavers in a
(07:14):
nearby whale.
Then in 19.
94.
They started construction tobuild a medical building and
discovered the well containingskeletal remains 25 feet below.
East Marshall street, whichhappens to be the historic site
of St.
Phillip hospital, the formersegregated facility for
(07:35):
African-Americans.
Archeologists were able tocollect the bones and sent the
collections to the Smithsonianinstitution the summer of 1994.
The remains were not spoken upand forgotten about until two
decades later, when an interestin the remains were bought back
into light by Dr.
Sean Please film in 2011 calleduntil the well runs dry.
(08:00):
Medicine and the exploitation ofblack bodies.
Due to this new found awareness,the project called east Marshall
street.
Well, project.
On November 25th, 2019 VCU andthe Richmond community.
Welcome back the remains fromthe Smithsonian institution with
respect and dignity.
These individuals were deniedbasic human rights in both life
(08:23):
and death.
For the sake of unethicalmedical studies in the United
States, the vcu.edu websitestill continuously updates their
website for the east Marshallstreet.
Well, project.
The most commonly known tosqeaky research study of
syphilis research for my youngeraudience, syphilis is a sexually
(08:43):
transmitted disease that affectsalmost any organ or tissue in
the body, especially thegenitals skin.
Mucus membranes.
Orta.
Brain liver bones and nerves.
This experiment began in 1932.
And lasted for 40 years.
This is the most racist, anethical inhumane experiment.
(09:04):
The research was performed onhundreds of black men with low
income.
These young black men wereoffered free meals, free
healthcare and free burialstipends.
However, the men were unaware ofthe type of tests that were
being performed on them.
They trusted the United Statespublic health service and the
Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
(09:26):
If you're wondering, like, I'mwondering how do these men get
tricked into this study?
Well, research has told themthey were being treated for bad
blood.
Most of these men had never seena doctor before.
So they trusted the physicianswere treating them properly.
However, the doctors were nottreating the men infected with
syphilis because they wanted toresearch the effects the disease
(09:48):
actually had on the body.
If syphilis went untreated.
The study found it causedpermanent organ damage
paralysis, blindness.
Severe mental illness andultimately it calls death.
In 1947, based on the studiesand research, it was discovered
that penicillin was an activetreatment for syphilis.
(10:10):
But it was never offered tothese young black men during the
remaining 25 years of the study,because due to their race, The
men were viewed as less thanhuman.
They were just used like labrats.
Their purpose was only to showthe longterm effects of
syphilis.
The deadly disease.
The documents of this study werenot Leite until 1972.
(10:32):
It was also made known that themen who thought they were
receiving treatment during thestudy were also unknowingly
spreading the disease to theirsexual partners.
Hundreds of the men died fromthe disease and the last living
survivor died in 2004.
This study.
I was an example of racialinjustice due to this study.
(10:53):
Many African-Americans do nottrust the healthcare system.
Even still today.
Uh, doctors historically,de-humanized black people during
treatment.
This next injustice is in lovingmemory.
Of Henrietta lacks and muchrespect to her loved ones,
family and friends that arestill suffering her loss.
(11:13):
In my opinion.
Henrietta cells are proof thatAfrica.
As the motherland and the motherof all mothers was that of an
African woman.
The only human cell line able toreproduce.
Uh, indefinitely.
Henrietta cells are known asHeala cells and are still being
used in research around theworld.
(11:34):
Although her cells and thestructure of herself has saved
many lives.
Her life was taken too soon andher cells were stolen and
research without her permissionand consent.
The researcher, Dr.
George Guy at John Hopkinsmedical center used our sales to
develop the polio vaccine andproduce many other drugs for
other diseases, includingParkinson's.
(11:56):
Leukemia and the flu.
Although biotech andpharmaceutical companies have
profited, commercialized andsold Henrietta sales.
Ms.
Henrietta lacks family has neverreceived any money or benefits.
Based on that research.
Hey, you.
The champion for life changes.
(12:17):
I'm challenging you to open, tounderstanding that in a world of
science, technology, researchand innovators black lives
matter, althoughAfrican-Americans have undergone
unethical, inhumane and unjusttreatment in America.
There are so much more to beuncovered about our true
history.
Even if you notice the timelineof the events and dates, what is
(12:41):
done in the dark always comes tolight and sexual beings will
allow justice to surface truth,to be acknowledged and humanity
to be restored.
It is so important to teachyoung children.
Or your future children, truehistory.
So these systematic racialinjustice don't continue to
happen to any race of people.
(13:04):
I'm only discussing what hashappened here in America.
We know these things happen allover the world.
However, even though some of themedical breakthroughs were
performed without consent, thesacrifices and contributions of
the African-American and blackpeople play a huge role in our
overall healing, health andmedical research.
(13:27):
Each week I promote a book andauthors that have impacted my
life or help me heal byincreasing my knowledge and
awareness of experiences outsideof my own.
I'm suggesting three books foryou to further your research.
The first book is called theOregon thieves.
this book is covering theinequalities and misusing
cadavers and disrespectfully.
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Disposing of the human remains.
In this book, the journalistchip Jones explores how organ
transplant in the U S revealsinequalities and racism, not
just in healthcare, but in otherrelated fields as well.
The second book is the immortallife of Henrietta lacks.
This book was written by RebeccaSkloot.
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She goes in detail explainingHenry at his life and how his
cells were taken without herknowledge, how Henrietta lacks
cells has become one of the mostimportant tools in medicine, the
cells.
Sales or the first immortalhuman cells grown in culture and
the cells are still alive today.
The third book is called medicalapartheid by Harriet, a
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Washington Harriet Washington isa medical.
Ethicist and journalists thatgoes in detail about abusive
medical practices in whichAfrican-Americans have been
subjected to.
She describes how both slavesand Friedman were used in the
hospitals for experimentsconducted without their
knowledge.
A tradition that continues todayin some black populations.
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She also discusses grave,robbings, unauthorized
autopsies, and dissection, thepseudo science of eugenics.
Please make sure to go to thepodcast notes and click on the
links to further your knowledgeand support my podcast.
And the authors also, pleaseleave a five star review on
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If you enjoy spending time withme every self-care Sunday.
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You are now a champion forhealing and change.
I was not able to covereverything in this session.
So here are some black historyresearch suggestions that you
can do on your own, as itrelates to the African-American
contributions to healing,health, and medical research.
Listen and listen.
Well, There's so many unethicalhistorical facts of the
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contributions of black people.
Number one, bodies of slavesbeing used as cadavers and
executed prisoners bodies beingused unethically.
Number two human trafficking andOregon's being stolen to perform
unlawful surgeries.
Kidnapped black childrenOregon's being sold on the black
market.
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Number three graves being robbedfor medical research.
Number four.
Unethical mental andpsychological procedures being
performed on black prisoninmates.
Number five human sales beingstolen and sold to biotech
companies.
Number six, black women beingsterilized with the forced
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sterilization and reproductiveabuse during the eugenics
movement.
Let me explain eugenics.
Negative eugenics is defined astrying to improve the quality of
the human species by stoppingreproduction of people that have
undesirable traits also known asselective breeding.
An example would be if.
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The society decided they didn'twant to breed black women that
had mental illness.
They will go to every blackwoman that has some form of
mental illness and stop her frombeing able to reproduce by
sterilizing her.
Or taking out her organs orperforming a hysterectomy
without her knowledge.
If you are an ally for the blackcommunity, understand the
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contributions to health andmedicine has helped save lives
of all races in the UnitedStates and the whole world.
We all benefit from theknowledge of historical facts.
We must exude the same peace,comfort, and love.
Please continue to celebrateblack history month with an open
heart.
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Elevate your mind.
Be open to health and wealth.
Trust the healing process,sometimes healing hurts, but
when completely healed youbecome a stronger.
Wiser and amazing human.
That was heavy.
Let's relax and breathe.
Breathe in love.
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Breathe out.
Love.
Breathe in peace.
Breathe out peace.
Breathe in love.
Share love.
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Now, share this podcast to helpsomeone you love I enjoy.
interacting with my listeners.
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