Why African Americans?

"Why African American May Not be Participating in Clinical Trials" by Yvonne Harris et al. 

Research Question: Has the history of medical science been built on the foundation of unethical medical research/ experimentation on African American? 

Summary: this article was based off the results of a study done in order to take a look at why African Americans are not participating in clinical trials. But what I found within the article was the historical review which points out what has made African Americans this way. The article states, "Past medical experimentation and other practices on blacks were often brutal and unethical." Blacks filled the hospital beds to help doctors practice and perfect their craft. This is what people say when they want to justify what happened to Blacks. Many cases were mentioned in the article such as a case in Alabama of a women who had vesicovaginal fistula and was surgically practiced on without an anesthetic or consent or the slave that was kept in a pit that was heated in order to test the remedies for heatstroke. 

     But once again the one case that continues to pop up is the Tuskegee syphilis study which I want to explore, but I also want to shed light on those cases that are not as infamous as the ones I mentioned earlier.

I found this article using Google Scholar linked to Auraria Library. It is hard to find articles based on unethical medical research, so keywords are extremely important when trying to find articles. I used the key terms African Americans and research in order to find this article based on the history of African Americans.

Harris, Yvonne., Gorelick, Philip B., Samuels, Patricia., and Bempong, Isaac. “Why African Americans May Not Be Participating In Clinical Trials." Journal of the National Medical Association. 88 (2000): 630-634. Print