Harriet Washington, in 'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,' documents the smallpox experiments Thomas Jefferson performed on his Monticello slaves. In fact, much of what we now think of as public health emerged from the slave system.

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  • History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation
  • Health — Well-being of mind and body, and the pursuit of vitality

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