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

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Medical scholar Harriet Washington joins us to talk about her new book, "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present." The book reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and the roots of the African American health deficit. It also examines less well-known abuses and looks at unethical practices and mistreatment of blacks that are still taking place in the medical establishment today.

🔗 Academic Phrasebank

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The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers. It aims to provide you with examples of some of the phraseological "nuts and bolts" of writing organised under the headings to the left. It was designed primarily with international students whose first language is not English in mind. However, if you are a native speaker writer, you may still find parts of the material helpful.

🔗 Suicide rates in people of South Asian origin in England and Wales: 1993-2003 -- McKenzie et al. 193 (5): 406 -- The British Journal of Psychiatry

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The South Asian Name and Group Recognition Algorithm (SANGRA) identifies South Asian individuals in data-sets by matching their names to the names in its directory. SANGRA has been validated using health-related electronic data containing names and self-assigned ethnicity, and has been used in a number of other epidemiological studies. Its reported sensitivity is 89–96% and specificity 94–98% for self-assigned ethnicity census categories Asian Bangladeshi',Asian Indian' or `Asian Pakistani'.

🔗 The Regression-Discontinuity Design

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The regression-discontinuity design. What a terrible name! In everyday language both parts of the term have connotations that are primarily negative. To most people "regression" implies a reversion backwards or a return to some earlier, more primitive state while "discontinuity" suggests an unnatural jump or shift in what might otherwise be a smoother, more continuous process. To a research methodologist, however, the term regression-discontinuity (hereafter labeled "RD") carries no such negative meaning. Instead, the RD design is seen as a useful method for determining whether a program or treatment is effective.

🔗 DarfuriWomen.org » Nowhere to Turn

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Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), in partnership with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), has published a report documenting the scope and long-term impact of rape and other sexual violence experienced by women who fled attacks on their villages in Darfur and are now refugees in neighboring Chad. This scientific study, corroborates women’s accounts of rape and other crimes against humanity that they have experienced in Darfur, as well as rape and deprivations of basic needs in refugee camps in Chad.