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2015 Freedom Center J. 89 (2015)
Black as less than Person: Case Studies on Race, Law & Medical Science in the United States

handle is hein.journals/freecejo6 and id is 97 raw text is: BLACK AS LESS THAN PERSON: CASE STUDIES ON RACE, LAW & MEDICAL SCIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES R Kyle Alagoodt US law and policy has allowed unscrupulous doctors and scientists to treat blacks as guinea pigs in medical research. The roots of discriminatory medical research go much deeper than the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male. By using a case study format, this narrative essay tracks human experimentation on blacks in the United States from the Founding Era to the twenty-first century It explores how some of the most important modern medical advances stem from deplorable experiments on slaves, discusses how scientific racism persists despite advances in modern scientific theory, and details how the Supreme Court helped fertilize the eugenics movement. The essay concludes with a brief look at racial disparities in healthcare outcomes and how to begin feeing black Americans from Dred Scott's legacy. I. A BRIEF HISTORY OF BLACK IN THE WHITE MIND: A LESSER HUMAN..91 A. Case Study: Father of Modern Gynecology, J. Marion Sims & Human Experimentation................................................................................... 6 B. Case Study: Dred Scott v. Sandford...................................................101 II. INCORPORATING DARWINISM INTO RACISM: EUGENICS & THE SUPREM E COURT .............................................................................................. 106 A. Case Study: Plessy v. Ferguson..........................................................108 III. TAKING EUGENICS FROM THEORY TO REALITY: LAW & HEALTH AS V EHICLES .......................................................................................................... ill A. Case Study: The Presumption of Syphilis in a Case of Paget's Disease 113 t Master of Science, University College London; Juris Doctor, Louisiana State University Law Center. ' This article reviews several appalling and graphic medical experiments done to black bodies. While some terms might be commonplace in a medical journal, they may be shocking to some readers in this context. My objective is to illustrate the incredible abuses that have been done to black bodies throughout medical history. The terms used in this article are medical terms, but they also reveal the horrific nature of what was done to black people in medical history. 89

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