Distillations | Science History Institute

Of all wealthy countries, the United States is the most dangerous place to have a baby. Our maternal mortality rate is a... Read more

Certain medical instruments have built-in methods of correcting for race. They’re based on the premise that Black bodies... Read more

When the plague broke out in San Francisco in 1900 the public health department poured all of their energy into stopping... Read more

In 2005 the FDA approved a pill to treat high blood preassure only in African Americans. This so-called miracle drug was... Read more

The word “Tuskegee” has come to symbolize the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. It has become Ame... Read more

In 1991, as crews broke ground on a new federal office building in lower Manhattan, they discovered human skeletons. It ... Read more

In 2019, Abdul-Aliy Muhammad, a community organizer and journalist, learned that the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Ant... Read more

In the 1990s a liberal population geneticist launched the Human Genome Diversity Project. The goal was to sequence the g... Read more

In the 1970s Barry Mehler started tracking race scientists and he noticed something funny: they all had the same funding... Read more

In 1793 a yellow fever epidemic almost destroyed Philadelphia. The young city was saved by two Black preachers, Richard ... Read more