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El Staff Presidencial En México. Del Secretario Particular A Las Oficinas De La Presidencia, J. R. Joel Flores-Mariscal Feb 2007

El Staff Presidencial En México. Del Secretario Particular A Las Oficinas De La Presidencia, J. R. Joel Flores-Mariscal

J. R. Joel Flores-Mariscal

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Our Inalienable Right To [Health] Care: Blacks, Ideological Whiteness, And The United States Health Care System, Vanessa Martinez Jan 2007

Our Inalienable Right To [Health] Care: Blacks, Ideological Whiteness, And The United States Health Care System, Vanessa Martinez

Vanessa Martinez

Medical research has found that health disparities fall along racial lines, showing that blacks have a higher incidence of infectious and chronic disease when compared to white populations in the United States. This effectively shows that black health is suffering in disproportionately larger numbers. Historically, being considered property and not human beings, blacks were used by scientists for experiments without informed consent. This did not end with slavery as is noted by the most publicized unethical and racist Tuskegee experiment that took place on 399 black men with syphilis from Tuskegee, Alabama between 1932 and 1972. While Tuskegee remains one …