Topic: Health Disparities
African American Healthcare Negatively Impacted by Bias-Driven Data
Hospitals across this nation use protocols and algorithms aimed at improving outcomes in their patients, but because of nuanced differences in the care of African Americans, those protocols have now been shown to negatively impact African American healthcare. A recent…
Prostate Cancer in African American Men
Prostate cancer in African American men is more deadly, occurs more often, and can be easily detected by a blood test called a "prostate specific antigen" or "PSA." Yet many doctors have been advised against checking for this cancer because…
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study (originally called "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male") was originally formed to record the natural history of syphilis with the hope of justifying the funding of public treatment programs for African Americans. The…
Historical Reasons for African American Distrust of Doctors
Stephen Kenny, University of Liverpool The history of human experimentation is as old as the practice of medicine and in the modern era has always targeted disadvantaged, marginalized, institutionalized, stigmatized and vulnerable populations: prisoners, the condemned, orphans, the mentally ill,…
