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Doctors: Who are the doctors and medical school students on Quora. Medical Student Resource Guide. Meducation - The Medical Education Network. Med Studentz Medical School Forum. Medicine. Bioethics Forum blog - Bad Vibrations. In “The Rhetoric of Dehumanization: An Analysis of Medical Reports of the Tuskegee Syphilis Project,” Martha Solomon brilliantly demonstrates how the project’s researchers hid their work in plain sight.

Bioethics Forum blog - Bad Vibrations

Specifically, Solomon used the published reports of the Tuskegee syphilis study – which involved medical professionals actively withholding medicines from black men with syphilis for four decades – to show how the dehumanizing, scientized language of modern medicine “can obscure and deemphasize any ethical, non-scientific perspective.” For over a decade, many people (including us) have criticized this surgical practice. Critics in medicine, bioethics, and patient advocacy have questioned the surgery’s necessity, safety, and efficacy. We still know of no evidence that a large clitoris increases psychological risk (so is the surgery even necessary?) , and we do know of substantial anecdotal evidence that it does not increase risk. Premed Network. Tiromed.com - A Comprehensive Medical Community. MeDiCaLGeeK. Doctors Lounge - Ask a Doctor Free, Online Medical Community, Forum, Encyclopedia.