Ethnicity Race and Government and Health

By the end of this week, you should be able to identify the key events where the government let down its responsibility to protect people when testing for healthcare concerns. Explain how racism has played a role in healthcare for minorities. This will meet course objective #2 and HESC program outcome #5.

Here is a link to an exhibit by the US National Library of Medicine on the Government’s role in Healthcare to Native Americans (Links to an external site.). This is an excellent exhibit.

Please watch the film Ama (Links to an external site.) about the treatment of Native American women by the US Government during the 1960s and 70s.

Please read the following articles:

African American Southerners and White Physicians: Medical Care at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Links to an external site.) from the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 86, issue 2, (September 2012), pp. 178-205

The Red Man and the White Plague”: Rethinking Race, Tuberculosis, and American Indians, ca 1890-1950 (Links to an external site.) from the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 82, issue 3, (September 2008), pp. 608-645

Public Health and World War II Assembly Centers for Japanese Americans (Links to an external site.) from the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 73 issue 4, (Winter 1999), pp. 565-584

Racism & Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study from The Hastings Center Report, vol 8, issue 6, (December 1978), pp. 21-29

From Exclusion to Expulsion: Mexicans and Tuberculosis in Los Angeles, 1914-1940 (Links to an external site.) from Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 77, Issue 4 (December 4, 2003), pp. 823-849

Once you have clicked on the link for the article, you will need to click on the pdf icon to bring up the article. This will be off to your left.

When you have finished this unit, you will be able to discuss the role government and research have played in creating our healthy society and some of the pitfalls of such an arrangement.

This week’s readings and questions meet HESC program outcome #5.
What lessons did you learn from the readings? What surprised you? What if anything did not? As always, please support your answers with examples from your tasks.

You will need to support your answers with examples from the readings. Please use APA when citing your sources in your response.

Please review the Reflection Paper Rubric Download Reflection Paper Rubricto see how you will be graded