Medical Apartheid

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Mississippi Appendectomy

an evolving online archive of information about forced sterilizations of women of color that is being compiled by Serena Sebring.
http://mississippiappendectomy.wordpress.com/about/

Top 50 Blogs About Reproductive Rights

by Erin Johansson on Health Hawk:
http://masterofpublichealth.org/2010/top-50-blogs-about-reproductive-rights/

Dr. Nicole Rousseau's Black Women's Reproductive Health Study

Our colleague Dr. Nicole Rousseau is conducting focus groups on Black women's reproductive health this fall:

http://www.nicolerousseau.info/Women_s_Health_Study.php

Our talk at SSSP conference

We just presented some work in progress in August at the Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting in Las Vegas:

“Race, Sexuality and Reproductive Surgeries,” Elizabeth B. Erbaugh, Butler University and Dionne Bensonsmith, Scripps College

Session 25: Reproductive Health: Current Issues and Prospects for Change

Sponsored by the SSSP sections on Family; Health, Health Policy, and Health Services

Paper presentations were followed by lively discussion among a great group of presenters and our small but very engaged audience. Thanks to Miranda R. Waggoner, Brandeis University and Arthur L. Greil, Alfred University for organizing our panel.

-BE & DBS

Reproductive Justice (vs. Reproductive Rights)

Working on mapping out the differences between the repro justice and repro rights frameworks for the paper DBS and I are working on. Here are a couple of very helpful resources, portions of which I used in my Gender, Race & Reproduction class at Butler:
Jennifer Nelson's book, Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement (2003, NYU Press), and Silliman et al's book, Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice (2004, South End Press).

Alternative Procedures Marketing to Black Women

While there are many alternatives to hysterectomies for treating fibroids, the hysterectomy still remains the most common "treatment," especially among African American women.  Hysterectomy is the second most common reproductive surgery performed in the United States (C-section being number one) and black women are three times as likely to have a hysterectomy than their white counterparts - the number one reason - heavy bleeding and pain caused by fibroids.  The following article traces the disproportionate impact of hysterectomies on African American women and discusses some of the alternatives currently available.

http://nwhn.org/fibroids-%E2%80%9Cnew%E2%80%9D-options-not-enough-answers