Saturday, March 23, 2013
Johns Hopkins Hospital
In the discussion of Johns Hopkins Hospital being built in the African American neighborhood -was it for the sole purpose of having available test subjects or were the intentions to actually help those individuals? I think that after reading part two, Skloot explained and provided a letter from Hopkins himselfin which Hopkins' intentions were to benefit African Americans, not exploit or take advantage of them. In my opinion his intentions of placing the hospital where he did was to help those who couldn’t afford medical care. In his letter he expresses how he wants to help the poor and he even set aside money for the children who are orphaned. Do you think his intentions represent what actually occurred in the facility? Many African Americans were afraid to be near the hospital having the idea that they might be kidnapped for research and testing. I think he would have viewed what was happening as unethical treatment towards the black population.
-emothersell
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I think that Hopkins intentions were good. However just because someone good intentions are good does not mean that they are carried out. I feel that some people in the hospital may have shared the same ideology that Hopkins himself had, but other were there to collect a check instead of helping those who needed help. Which could have easily led to the perception that if the black population went in they were going to be treated terribly.
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