Systemic racism and U.S. health care

Systemic racism and U.S. health care

Elsevier

The suffering of African Americans on the hand of physicians and scientists was also evident in the early 20th century 'eugenics'-  a process of reducing the undesirable population and controlling it to not surpass the dominant race.

Racism within health related institutions targets patients of color, particularly African Americans for multiple purposes, most prominently: (1) the ideological perception of Blacks as animalistic, thus, they are able to handle pain, (2) a process of racial purification 'eugenics', and (3) subject of medical experimentation.

2014

Journal article