Missing the beach...tonight would be a nice night to walk along it...I am studying the history of race and citizenship in this country and concurrently the history of women in sickness and health in this country and I shall soon be reading about the history of the vibrator. There are a lot of premed students in my class...they are in for a real rollicking ride whether they want it or not. A couple of guys are in it only because they couldn't find another class to fit their schedule. We will be talking about abortion and reproductive rights, the decline of the midwife (and rise and fall again after the 60s), the history of birth control, the medicalization of birthing and historical birthing practices, and many, many other things including female sexuality. In the race class, we will of course talk about race historically and the rights and lack of rights of various racialized groups. With all this "heavy stuff," I feel I need the healing ocean air...this land is ripe with legacies and they're not all pretty.Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Ocean and legacy
Missing the beach...tonight would be a nice night to walk along it...I am studying the history of race and citizenship in this country and concurrently the history of women in sickness and health in this country and I shall soon be reading about the history of the vibrator. There are a lot of premed students in my class...they are in for a real rollicking ride whether they want it or not. A couple of guys are in it only because they couldn't find another class to fit their schedule. We will be talking about abortion and reproductive rights, the decline of the midwife (and rise and fall again after the 60s), the history of birth control, the medicalization of birthing and historical birthing practices, and many, many other things including female sexuality. In the race class, we will of course talk about race historically and the rights and lack of rights of various racialized groups. With all this "heavy stuff," I feel I need the healing ocean air...this land is ripe with legacies and they're not all pretty.
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Most of them aren't pretty. I think that's sad. In my Abnormal Psych class last night, we talked about the Tuskegee project wherein our government decided it would be a good idea to test the affects of syphilis on African American men. So they took these 40 men and denied them treatment and studied them to see the various stages of the disease. All of them died. Now i fully understand that it was not to the scale that the Nazis killed and experimented, but I'm not sure I see any difference in what they did and the medical experiments that were done by the hideous Nazis....
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