quiz 2 Special populations

Medical exploitation of enslaved black women

The price of enslaved Black women increased for use in medical experiments focused on reproductive viability, including surgical procedures such as cesarean sections and treatments for ovarian cancer, most of which were conducted without anesthesia due to the inaccurate belief that Black people felt less pain than White people.

Federal Indian Boarding Schools

These institutions were designed to culturally assimilate American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children by forcibly removing them from their families and communities, where they suffered severe abuse and neglect, and many died and were buried in marked and unmarked graves.

The Emancipation Proclamation

The Proclamation declared the end of Slavery in the Confederacy, outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude, granted citizenship, right to vote. It was unsuccessful in states where lynching, Black Code, and Jim Crow

laws were established

Alaska purchase

After the United States purchased Alaska from Russia, Alaska Natives were excluded from the rights granted to White people, including ownership of most of the land, while much of their population had already dwindled due to disease introduced by the Russians, until they were granted full citizenship and the right to vote in 1921, and in 1971 President Nixon ceded 44 million acres of federal land back to Alaska Native people.

American Eugenics and the Forced Sterilization of Women of

Color and Low-Income Women

Framed as an effort to “preserve racial integrity” and “purify the white race,” forced sterilization policies authorized doctors to forcibly sterilize their patients—targeting low-income communities of color and people with disabilities under the belief that it could improve or impair the physical or mental racial qualities of future generations—and resulted in the sterilization of approximately 60,000 men and women, including children as young as ten.

The Flexner Report

The Flexner Report was a 1910 evaluation of U.S. and Canadian medical schools that reformed medical education by promoting standardized, science-based training, but also led to the closure of many schools, disproportionately affecting institutions that trained Black physicians and women.

Syphilis Study at Tuskegee

A 40-year experiment conducted by the U.S.

Public Health Service that studied the

progression of untreated syphilis in 600 poor,

Black sharecroppers without their consent. Participants were told they were receiving

medical care, but not that they had syphilis