Deleso Alford
Southern University Law Center, Law, Department Member
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- Deleso Alford is a Shreveport, Louisiana native and Visiting Professor of Law at Southern University Law Center and Adjunct Faculty and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine Health Sciences Campus. At Southern University Law Center, Professor Alford taught Civil Procedure and Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure and currently teaching Torts II and Law and Racism.edit
I argue that the particularized and unique experiences of enslaved Black women have been traditionally viewed as extracting assets from her body in the form of a “crop of human labor” in the historically referred to role as a so-called... more
I argue that the particularized and unique experiences of enslaved Black
women have been traditionally viewed as extracting assets from her body in the form of a “crop of human labor” in the historically referred to role as a so-called “breeder.‘ The focal point of this article is to explore a means to address the impact of continuing to tell the narrative on the development of the medical specialty of gynecology in the United States without the benefit of a “her-storical” lens. The reproductive and surgical exploitation meted upon three enslaved women, Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy, among other un-named enslaved Black women, “othered” by their skin based upon a construction of “race,” yet “samed” their bodies for purposes of extracting reproductive knowledge, surgical inventions, and innovations to benefit all women. 12 The story of Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy is the marginalized story of
how the laws of enslavement sanctioned medical experimentation and exploitation upon the bodies of Black women.
I posit that the telling of Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy's narrative in medical schools will aid current efforts to attain cultural competency.
women have been traditionally viewed as extracting assets from her body in the form of a “crop of human labor” in the historically referred to role as a so-called “breeder.‘ The focal point of this article is to explore a means to address the impact of continuing to tell the narrative on the development of the medical specialty of gynecology in the United States without the benefit of a “her-storical” lens. The reproductive and surgical exploitation meted upon three enslaved women, Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy, among other un-named enslaved Black women, “othered” by their skin based upon a construction of “race,” yet “samed” their bodies for purposes of extracting reproductive knowledge, surgical inventions, and innovations to benefit all women. 12 The story of Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy is the marginalized story of
how the laws of enslavement sanctioned medical experimentation and exploitation upon the bodies of Black women.
I posit that the telling of Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy's narrative in medical schools will aid current efforts to attain cultural competency.
Research Interests: Curriculum Design, Critical Bioethics, Black History, Black Feminist Theory/Thought, Medical and Research ethics, and 10 moreGynecology, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Enslavement, J Marion Sims, Obgyn and Gynecology, Cultural Competency Curriculum, unethical human experimentation, Anarcha, Bestsey and Lucy, Critical race feminist bioethics, and her-storical
Ms.Henrietta Lacks - raced by social construction and gendered by biology for all mankind stood at the crossroads of public health care (circa 1951) in an apartheid state of reality in the United States and ploughed back into medicine.... more
Ms.Henrietta Lacks - raced by social construction and gendered by biology for all mankind stood at the crossroads of
public health care (circa 1951) in an apartheid state of reality in the United States and ploughed back into medicine.
The biological uniqueness of her cells allowed scientists and researchers to benefit society as a whole. In this essay, I
place Ms. Lacks' parts (tissue cells) back into her body to raise a claim of unjust enrichment.
public health care (circa 1951) in an apartheid state of reality in the United States and ploughed back into medicine.
The biological uniqueness of her cells allowed scientists and researchers to benefit society as a whole. In this essay, I
place Ms. Lacks' parts (tissue cells) back into her body to raise a claim of unjust enrichment.
Research Interests:
Medical schools must deliver a culturally competent curriculum for purposes of accreditation. This article will shed light on race, gender, and class disparities in healthcare. Specifically, I will address the marginalization of women in... more
Medical schools must deliver a culturally competent curriculum for purposes of accreditation. This article will shed light on race, gender, and class disparities in healthcare. Specifically, I will address the marginalization of women in the historical and contemporary recounting of the US Public Health Services Syphilis Study' at Tuskegee. This Article contends that the US Public Health Services Syphilis Study at Tuskegee's failure to acknowledge the direct impact on women requires a transformative remedy to address cultural competence accreditation mandates for medical education.