Dehumanized

In class on Tuesday we talked about weather J. Marion Sims actions were moral or not. After thinking about it for a while thought of the idea of Sims being dehumanized. Dehumanized is defined as "to deprive of human qualities or attributes", which I feel Sims, to a certain point, did lack. He listened to women scream with horror from procedures that he knew weren't 100% necessary. I feel like this shows that he was lacking some sort of human quality such as compassion. Some might say that compassion is only half of being human; humans also have the tendency of being ruthless for getting what they want. Perhaps that is true but if your fellow colleges can't even stand being in the same room with you when you preform the procedures on the women, then I feel like that is enough evidence right there to prove that you are doing something wrong. Another person might say that the African American women he was experimenting on were not seen as humans, but merely animals at the time. This is true, and perhaps I might be stretching this a bit, but when you boil everything down no matter what he was experimenting on, man, women, dog; if they are screaming out in pain I feel like just about every living thing would want to try there best to make the situation not as painful as it could be. Sims did what he had to do to get what he wanted. He put his experiment before the human being.This can also be connected to the movie we watched on Thursday. Hospitals today, in a way, do the same thing Sims did. They don't see the care of the baby and the mother before the patient in and out statistics. It is crazy to think that they're the ones that are looking down upon midwifes when in fact its the hospitals that are the ones with the hidden agenda.