Exploring the AMA’s History of Discrimination
Last Thursday, the American Medical Association apologized for its history of discrimination against African-American physicians. The apology comes on the heels of a JAMA paper published ($) by a panel of independent experts, which among other things detailed how the AMA worked to close down African-American medical schools. We spoke with one of the paper's authors, Harriet A. Washington, who last year also won the National Book Critics Circle Award for "Medical Apartheid," a history of medical experimentation on black … more…
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Jonathan Sidhu, a student at Brown University, will graduate with a bachelor’s and master’s of arts in Development Studies in December 2008. At Brown, he was an editor of the Brown Daily Herald, and his writing and reporting has also appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the South China Morning Post, Mint, the Hindustan Times and Time.
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