Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?

Is it good medical practice for physicians to "eyeball" a patient's race when assessing their medical status or even to ask them to identify their race

Response to "The Legitimacy of Genetic Ancestry Tests"

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The Inoculation Studies in Guatemala: a webinar with Susan Reverby, PhD

The Guatemala syphilis study, unearthed by medical historian, Susan M. Reverby, is another shocking and sadly familiar example of the abuse of human subjects in research. Ms. Reverby will present her findings in a webinar titled The Guatemalan Inoculation Study: Susan M. Reverby on Research Ethics and Lessons for HRPPs, which will address the horrific story of US public health researchers intentionally infecting hundreds of people in Guatemala, including mental patients, with gonorrhea and syphilis without their knowledge. A professor at Wellesley College who has published two books about the US Public Health Service Syphilis study that took place in Tuskegee, AL, Ms. Reverby will share her findings and insights on what today’s research professionals may learn from this astounding example of immoral research practices that occurred more than 60 years ago

Racism, disease, and vaccine refusal: People of color are dying for access to COVID-19 vaccines.

As the vaccines against COVID are slowly becoming available, we need to consider the paradox of why so many people of color are dying from the disease yet cannot get the vaccinations. Concerns focus on vaccine refusal but lack of access is the bigger problem

Sífilis por "exposição normal" e inoculação: um médico da equipe do estudo Tuskegee na Guatemala, 1946-1948

Entre 1946 e 1948, o Serviço de Saúde Pública dos Estados Unidos (PHS) e a Oficina Sanitária Panamericana, com a colaboração de funcionários de saúde pública do governo da Guatemala, realizaram um estudo sobre o uso da penicilina como possível profilaxia para a sífilis, gonorreia e cancro. Os "sujeitos" do estudo - prisioneiros, doentes mentais e soldados gualtematecos foram inoculados com essas doenças e também pelo contato com prostitutas infectadas. A fraude foi parte do estudo e os abusos éticos foram discutidos no PHS. Os resultados do estudo não foram publicados