Episode 4, How the Bad Blood Started, focuses on the intersection of race and the health-care in America from personal stories to a look at the history to current health disparities.
One of the essays in the 1619 Project discusses issues raised in this podcast episode:
Black Americans have experienced a vastly disproportionate death rate during the Covid-19 pandemic, magnifying and revealing persistent inequalities that remain an undeniable force in this country. A recent cover story in The New York Times Magazine addressed these tragic disparities and showed how they are connected to a history of systemic racism in the United States. This same history was explored in the magazine’s landmark 1619 Project last summer.
Linda Villarosa, contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine who wrote How False Beliefs in Physical Racial Difference Still Live in Medicine Today was joined by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning domestic correspondent and creator of the 1619 Project; Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times editorial board member and staff writer for the magazine. Hosted by Jake Silverstein, editor in chief of the magazine.
In the PBS genealogy and family history show, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a radio host named Joe Madison learns that his grandfather was a victim of the infamous Tuskegee Institute Syphilis Study. This episode aired on April 9, 2019.
"The Tuskegee Institute Syphilis Study, or Tuskegee Study, was conducted by the United States Public Health Service from 1932 until 1972; the objective of the study was to observe the natural progression of the sexually transmitted disease syphilis on African American men.
The study was conducted on African American men, primarily poor and uneducated sharecroppers in Tuskegee, Alabama; which at the time had the highest syphilis rate in the country. The participants were told they were being treated for “bad blood” .... Participants of the study were never told they had syphilis and were only given placebos even after 1947 when scientists discovered that penicillin was an effective treatment for syphilis."
Dr. W. Michael Byrd and Dr. Linda A. Clayton, authors of the book An American Health Dilemma, speak at Boston University in October 2016.
Speakers:
W. Michael Byrd, Director, Institute for Optimizing Health and Health Care Inc.; Health Policy Researcher, Harvard School of Public Health; Health Policy Instructor, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School; Adjunct Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Meharry Medical College
Linda A. Clayton, Co-Director, Institute for Optimizing Health and Health Care Inc.; Health Policy Researcher, Harvard School of Public Health; Health Policy Instructor, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School; Adjunct Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Meharry Medical College
W. Montague Cobb, doctor and scholar (1904-1990)
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The University of Alabama's Speaking of Race podcast has a mini-series on Race & Health: