“Race” has been a four-letter word in the United States for almost four centuries. It earned
that status in 1619 when Dutch traders sold the first African slaves in Jamestown, Virginia …

Racism in medicine, a problem with roots over 2,500 years old, is a historical continuum that
continuously affects African-American health and the way they receive healthcare. Racism …

In 2002, the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine (IOM),
scientifically documented widespread racial disparities in healthcare and suggested that …

Abstract In the September‐October 2001 issue of the Hastings Center Report, editor Gregory
Kaebnick encouraged bioethicists to turn their attention toward “easily overlooked, relatively …

Abolition has been part of the American democratic experiment since the founding of this
nation—a founding premised in large part upon the violent exploitation of Black labor that …

Recently, our medical school hosted Dr. Linda Rae Murray to give a talk on structural racism
and medicine. A former president of the American Public Health Association, Dr. Murray …

Abstract Between 1910 and 1968, the National Medical Association (NMA) repeatedly
clashed with the American Medical Association (AMA) over the latter organization's racial …

An independent panel of experts, convened by the American Medical Association (AMA)
Institute for Ethics, analyzed the roots of the racial divide within American medical …

DANIEL Patrick Moynihan, currently a Presidential advisor at the White House, has received
wide publicity for his suggestion of a period of" benign neglect" of race relations in the …

States Public Health Service began a study of untreated syphilis on 399 poor black men
suffering from the disease and 201 control subjects. The" Tuskegee Study of Untreated …