Mgregg21

Hello! I'm an undergraduate student from Houston, TX, where I am pursuing my bachelor's in public health. Looking towards the future, I hope to get an MD/MPH degree to combine my love of public health and medicine. I am interested in contributing to articles covering public health, women's health, and generational health, and am willing to engage in productive conversation regarding any health related issue.

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I am interested in creating my own article called "Female Slave Resistance" (working title) using the listed references. I've done research on enslaved women's use of abortion and infanticide and the existing articles of slavery in the U.S. (Slavery in the United States, Slave Resistance, Enslaved Women in the United States) fail to mention the significant impact this had on women. I would like to go in detail about the way enslaved women resisted slavery, especially when came to controlling their bodies. Infanticide and abortion are often associated with the mother not wanting a child, but for enslaved women, infanticide and abortion were some of the ways women protected their children from the burden of slavery. A rough outline of this article can be found in my sandbox.

References:

Allain, J. M. 2014. Infanticide as Slave Resistance: Evidence from Barbados, Jamaica, and Saint-Domingue. Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse 6 (04), http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=893

Bush-Slimani, Barbara. "Hard Labor: Women, Childbirth and Resistance in British Caribbean Slave Societies." History Workshop, no. 36 (1993): 83-99. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4289253.

Bell, Bernard W. "Beloved: A Womanist Neo-Slave Narrative; or Multivocal Remembrances of Things Past." African American Review 26, no. 1 (1992): 7-15. doi:10.2307/304207

Jensen, Loucynda. "Searching the Silence: Finding Black Women’s Resistance to Slavery in Antebellum U.S. History," PSU McNair Scholars Online Journal1, no. 2 (2006): 135-161. doi: 10.15760/mcnair.2006.135

Johnson, Michael P. "Smothered Slave Infants: Were Slave Mothers at Fault?" The Journal of Southern History 47, no. 4 (1981): 493-520. doi:10.2307/2207400.

Hine, Darlene C. “Female Slave Resistance: The Economics of Sex.” The Western Journal of Black Studies 3, no. 2 (1979): 123.

Perrin, Liese M. “Resisting Reproduction: Reconsidering Slave Contraception in the Old South.” Journal of American Studies 35, no. 2 (2001): 255–74. doi:10.1017/S0021875801006612.

Roth, Sarah N. “‘The Blade Was in My Own Breast’: Slave Infanticide in 1850s Fiction.” American Nineteenth Century History8, no. 2 (2007):169-185. doi: 10.1080/14664650701387896

Scully, Pamela. "Narratives of Infanticide in the Aftermath of Slave Emancipation in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony, South Africa." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne Des Études Africaines 30, no. 1 (1996): 88-105. doi:10.2307/486042.

Tooley, Michael. "Abortion and Infanticide." Philosophy & Public Affairs 2, no. 1 (1972): 37-65. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2264919.

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I'm interested in adding on the Clinical Trials or Clinical Trials in India page, adding content related to outsourcing of clinical trials. With the globalization of clinical trials, what are the ethical dilemmas of this outsourcing? I would like add content regarding outsourcing trends, with outsourcing perspectives from drug companies and subjects.

References:

Jayaraman, K. 2004. Outsourcing clinical trials to India rash and risky, critics warn. Nat Med 10, 440. https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0504-440a

M. Lowman, P. Trott, A. Hoecht, Z. Sellam. 2012. Innovation risks of outsourcing in pharmaceutical new product development. Technovation 32(2), 99-109. ISSN 0166-4972, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2011.11.004.

Shah, Sonia. 2012. Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World’s Poorest Patients. The New Press. ISBN: 9781595588319

Petryna, Adriana. 2009. When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691126579

Anderson, Kent. 2016. Why Is ClinicalTrials.gov still struggling? https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/03/15/why-is-clinicaltrials-gov-still-struggling/

Thiers, F., Sinskey, A. & Berndt, E. 2008. Trends in the globalization of clinical trials. Nat Rev Drug Discov 7, 13–14. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd2441

George, M., Selvarajan, S, Suresh-Kumar, S., Dkhar, S. A., and Chandrasekaran, A. 2013. Globalization of clinical trials - where are we heading? Curr Clin Pharmacol 8 (2):115-23. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22963351/. doi: 10.2174/1574884711308020004. PMID: 22963351.

Weigmann K. 2015. The ethics of global clinical trials: In developing countries, participation in clinical trials is sometimes the only way to access medical treatment. What should be done to avoid exploitation of disadvantaged populations? EMBO reports, 16(5), 566–570. https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.201540398

Li, R., Barnes, M., Aldinger, C. E., and Bierer, B. E. 2015. Global Clinical Trials: Ethics, Harmonization, and Commitments to Transparency. http://harvardpublichealthreview.org/global-clinical-trials-ethics-harmonization-and-commitments-to-transparency/

I would also be interested in creating a medical racism section in the Racism page. There's already several articles discussing racism scientific racism, but I haven't found anything yet regarding medical racism. Some examples of medical racism include the spirometer, implicit bias of practitioners, the speculum, and the absence of the skin conditions presenting on dark skin in medical textbooks.

References:

Braun L. 2015. Race, ethnicity and lung function: A brief history. Canadian journal of respiratory therapy 51(4), 99–101. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631137/

Tello, Monique. 2017. Racism & Discrimination in Health care: providers and patients. Harvard Health Blog. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/racism-discrimination-health-care-providers-patients-2017011611015

Shaban, Hamza. 2014. How Racism Creeps Into Medicine. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/how-racism-creeps-into-medicine/378618/

Penner, L. A., Dovido, J. F, West, T. V., Gaertner, S. L, Albrecht, T. L., Dailey, R. K, and Markova, T. 2010. Aversive Racism and Medical Interactions with Black Patients: A Field Study. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 46 (2), 436-440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2009.11.004

King, G. 1996. Institutional Racism & the Medical/Health Complex: a conceptual analysis. Ethnicity & Disease 6 (1-2), 30-46. https://europepmc.org/article/med/8882834

Hoberman, John.  2012. Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism. University of California Press. ISBN: 978-0-520-27401-3

Nuriddin, A., Mooney, G., and White, A. 2020. Reckoning with Histories of Medical Racism and Violence in the USA. The Lancelet. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32032-8/fulltext

Rees, M., and Biggers, A. 2020. Racism in healthcare: What you need to know. Medical News Today. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/racism-in-healthcare

Williams, D., and Rucker, T. 2000. Understanding and Addressing Racial Disparities in Health Care. Health Care Finance Rev 21(4), 75-90. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4194634/

Romano, M. 2018. White Privilege in a White Coat: How Racism shaped my medical education. Annals of Family Medicine 16(3), 261-263. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5951257/