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In recent years, Shaw’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century drama about the ethics and economics of healthcare has been seen as prescient, prefiguring the establishment of the National Health Service in Britain and the Affordable Care Act in the United States. Even with these developments, modern Colenso Ridgeons still grapple with limited resources, ine
... See moreSuzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
40 percent were women of color—most of whom were African American.70 During the Jim Crow era, impoverished Black women in the Deep South were frequently subjected to hysterectomies or tubal ligations against their will and without their knowledge.
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
“Until recently, the medical community and the general public didn’t know that he had developed several of his surgical techniques by operating on unanesthetized, enslaved Black women. Sims’s records suggest there were perhaps a dozen women in total, but we know the names of only three of the women: Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy. Anarcha alone endured
... See moreI met Margot Edwards during 1948 in Matcham Skipper's Studio behind the Russell Street police station, and it was only a short time afterwards that I became her lover and a constant visitor to her in a loft in Ivanhoe. Margot was only eighteen years old and one of the most beautiful girls I had ever seen. S... See more
Alistair Knox
the end, regardless of a Black woman’s marriage status or the specific circumstances surrounding her pregnancy, they were vulnerable to state-sanctioned violence at the hands of racist white doctors and complicit hospital workers who deemed impoverished Black women “unfit” for reproduction.
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
See in the face of every patient the face of someone you love.