Medicine, Anatomy, and Ideology

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Air date: 
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 9:00am to 10:00am
HISTORY OF MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS ON PEOPLE OF COLOR

Desiree Hellegers reads an excerpt from Craig Steven Wilders' Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery and the Troubled History of American Universities that illuminates the long history of medical experimentation on people of color in the U.S., and that challenges claims about scientific practice as liberatory, environmentally friendly and insulated from dominant ideologies. 

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