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.

Ethnicity, Race and Government and Health
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.
Here is a link to an exhibit by the US National Library of Medicine on the Government’s role in Healthcare to Native Americans .
Watch the film Ama about the treatment of Native American women by the US Government during the 1960s and 70s.
Read the following articles: African American Southerners and White Physicians: Medical Care at the Turn of the Twentieth Century from the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 86, issue 2,, pp. 178-205
The Red Man and the White Plague”: Rethinking Race, Tuberculosis, and American Indians, ca 1890-1950  from the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 82, issue 3, , pp. 608-645
Public Health and World War II Assembly Centers for Japanese Americans from the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 73 issue 4, , pp. 565-584
Racism & Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study from The Hastings Center Report, vol 8, issue 6,, pp. 21-29
From Exclusion to Expulsion: Mexicans and Tuberculosis in Los Angeles, 1914-1940  from Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 77, Issue 4 , pp. 823-849

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