Dr. Medusa

Our subject today might seem unrelated to diversity in science and engineering. But have some patience and let us make the case. We learned about the new career path of professional drug testers, called “guinea pigs”, in a fascinating New Yorker article last month by Carl Elliott (the January 7, 2008 issue; the article isn’t available [...]

Harriet Washington’s book Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present came out earlier this year. We learned about the book from a fascinating review by Alondra Nelson in the Washington Post in January. The thesis of the book is straightforward, according to Nelson. Washington enumerates [...]