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. 2022 May 24;194(20):E708-E710.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.212103.

The past, present and future of race and colonialism in medicine

Ellen J Amster  1
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The past, present and future of race and colonialism in medicine

Ellen J Amster. CMAJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Ellen Amster reports a grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council and speaker fees from Rutgers University Center for Historical Analysis, outside the submitted work.

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Figure 1:
A woman stands beside the empty pedestal where a statue of J. Marion Sims was removed from Central Park, New York City, in 2018. Photo used with permission from Getty Images.
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Lacapère’s schematic of the evolution of “Arab syphilis.” From Georges Lacapère, La syphilis arabe: Maroc, Algérie, Tunisie (Paris: Octave Doin; 1923).
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