SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Department of Behavioral Sciences/CETL
(in partnership with the Learning Resources Center)
READING ACROSS THE CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY
RACC 2011
Lecture and Discussion Agenda
Selected Reading: Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Crown/Random House. 2010
(Supplementary Reading: Harriet Washington. Medical Apartheid. Anchor Books, 2008)
RACC Online Discussion Blog Address: http://racc2011.blogspot.com
Second Life Display: Contact the Department of Behavioral Sciences
Blackboard url Information: http://bb9.aamu.edu (username: racc; password: 1234)
January 27: 12:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. LRC
RACC 2011 Kickoff / Film – The Way of All Flesh/Adam Curtis(Youtube)
February 3: 12:30 p.m. Drake Hall
Presentation/Student Discussion on: “Race and Medical Treatment, Research and Experimentation”
Presentation by Dr. Ronald L. Slaughter
February 10: 4:00 p.m. Hudson-Alpha On-Site Visit (Space Limited and Registration Required: Contact Dr. Ronald L.Slaughter)
Hudson-Alpha Institute for Biotechnology (601 Genome Way, Huntsville, AL 35806)
Presentation by Dr. Chris Gunter
February 24: 12:30 p.m. Drake Hall
Presentation/Student Discussion: “Family, Sex, and Incestuous Relationships: Change and Continuity in the American Family”
Presentation by Dr. Joseph Rosher
March 3: 12:30 p.m. Drake Hall
Presentation/Student Discussion: “Legal and Ethical Concerns”
Attorney Kimberly Carter Brown
March 24: 12:30 p.m. Drake Hall
Presentation/Student Discussion: “Philosophies of Identity, Death and Race”
Presentation by Ms. Diane Wilkinson
April 7: 12:30 p.m. Knight Center – CULMINATING EVENT
RACC 2011 Featured Lecture by Harriet A. Washington (Author of the book Medical Apartheid)
Yes I feel that her being an afro-american made a big difference on how her treatment was. George Grey new that if he would have told the family what he was doing they would not have allow there mother back at Hopkins hospital. If that happened then Grey would have not been able to get the cells that he needed for his experiment. So the hospital had to treat her for at least something so she could come back over and over again for radiation treatment to burn the dead tissues away. But the more she would come in for treatment the more cells they could get from her weaken body. She also complain of abnormal bleeding which the hospital took very lightly. If she had been a white woman this would have never happened because they don't experiment on their own kind.
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