Medical Racism: A Legacy of Malpractice – w/ Deirdre Cooper-Owens

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This nation has a long history of exploiting Black Americans in the name of medicine. A practice which began with the Founding Fathers using individual enslaved persons for gruesome experimentation evolved into state-sanctioned injustices such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, among others. Award-winning author, historian Deirdre Cooper-Owens details a chronology of medical malpractice and racist misconceptions about health while highlighting lesser-known stories of medical innovations by African Americans.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Be sure to visit the <a href= "https://www.learningforjustice.org/podcasts/teaching-hard-history/jim-crow-era/medical-racism-a-legacy-of-malpractice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">enhanced episode transcript</a> for additional classroom resources for teaching about the intersection of sports and race during the Jim Crow era.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Like this online exhibition – <a href="https://librarycompany.org/dejavu/"><em>Déjà Vu, We’ve Been Here Before: Race, Health, and Epidemics.</em></a> This</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">helpful resource was created by</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">some of Dr. Cooper Owens' students for the Library Company of Philadelphia, where she also serves as</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Director of the Program in African American History.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And educators!</span> <a href= "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfuXWiVuj9_vNR0EBRXwfBlIJ7CpYwiwNTtDtrQWDxZB9nrdw/viewform?usp=pp_url&entry.1748617993=13:+Medical+Racism:+A+Legacy+of+Malpractice" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Get a professional development certificate</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">for listening to this episode—issued by Learning for Justice. Listen for the code word, then visit</span> <a href= "https://www.learningforjustice.org/podcasts/professional-development" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span