The Misuse of Medicine and Science in American Slavery
In colonial America, many parts of society helped to enforce slavery for over 250 years. In this text, we focus on how scientific and medical communities used false ideas about race to oppress enslaved people.
Topics
- health equity
- public health
- medical discrimination
- equity
- racism
- inclusion
- diversity
- belonging
- RDEISE
- slavery
- slave trade
- science history
- medical history
- Samuel Cartwright
- transatlantic slave trade
- scientific racism
- medical racism
- pseudoscience
- drapetomania
- dysaesthesia aethiopica