Historical Aspects of Race and Medicine

2018/09/25 by Keith Wailoo · 55 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Medicine · #Medical History and Innovations #Medical History and Research #Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices #Medicine #Race (biology) #Family medicine #Gender studies

paper · doi:10.1001/jama.2018.11944

published in JAMA 320(15), 1529 (American Medical Association)

openalex publication_date 2018/09/25 · openalex created_date 2018/09/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

This Viewpoint uses controversy over the status of statues commemorating J. Marion Sims, a Southern gynecologist who developed operative techniques for vesicovaginal fistulae on enslaved women, to discuss changing the history of attitudes toward race and discrimination in medicine and society.

Citations

• The Use of Blacks for Medical Experimentation and Demonstration in the Old South

Cited by

• J. Marion Sims [wikipedia]

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