Medical Discoveries and Racial Discrimination: A Historical Overview - Prof. T. Allen, Study notes of African American History

Download Medical Discoveries and Racial Discrimination: A Historical Overview - Prof. T. Allen and more Study notes African American History in PDF only on Docsity! 1. Who is the author of Medical Apartheid: Harriet A. Washington 2. The painter that provided the benevolent image of James Marion Sims: Robert Thom 3. Which pharmaceutical company holds the copyright on the famous image of James Marion Sims.: Pfizer, Inc. 4. The name of the enslaved African female in the famous image of James Marion Sims: Betsey 5. Between 1963-1993 the number of African-Americans diagnosed with diabetes increased by: 3 6. The percentage of HIV infections that are African-Americans are: 49 7. What percentage of children (African-Americans) are infected with HIV are:86 8. Black young men’s suicide rate has increased by what percentage over the past 20 years: 200 9. The involuntary sterilization of women in the south was known as: “Mississippi appendectomy” 10. When did anesthesia become readily available? Late 1830s 11. The common medicine for malingering slave.: whippings 12. Scientist who studies different groups of men: race scientists 13. The author of Crania Americana : Samuel George Morton 14. The author of The diseases and physical peculiarities of the Negro Race : Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright 15. Drapetomania: the “escaping disease” for slaves; comes from Greek words for flight and insanity 16. Eating dirt: Chacexia Africana 17. Struma Africana: form of tubercolosis that physicians diagnosed as an African disease 18. Hebetude: singular laziness or shiftlessness that caused slaves to mishandle and abuse their owner’s property 19. The author of Types of Mankind : George R. Gliddon 20. What percentage of Sub-Saharan Africans are “Duffy Negative”: 95% 21. Every year from 1750 until emancipation one out of how many Black women gave birth: 5 22. A term for the fear of medical care: iatrophobia 23. The doctor who pioneered eye surgery: Dr. James Dugas 24. The name of the African female that Sims used to try to cure vesicovaginal fistula.: Anarcha or Lucy 25. Dr. Francois Marie Prevot used enslave African women to perfect: cesarean sections 26. Enslaved African who helped save the city of Boston from smallpox: Onesimus 27. One of the first exhibits in the New Cork City Zoo: Ota Benga, a pygmy man 28. Known as the Venus Hottentot: Saartjie Baartman 29. George Washington’s nurse maid: Joice Heth 30. Two headed Siamese twins: Millie-Christine 31. A black mathematical prodigy: Blind Tom 32. The name of the African slave that jaw was cut open by J. Marion Sims: Sam