TB Research

Indigenous Peoples, tuberculosis research and changing ideas about race in the 1930s

Christian W. McMillen

Canadian Medical Association Journal · 2021-10

Abstract

Before the 1930s, many medical personnel, administrators and others in colonial settler societies considered race the deciding factor in who did and did not get tuberculosis (TB). Racial thinking came in 2 varieties. Both were rooted in white supremacy and in the belief that white bodies and

MeSH terms

  • Indigenous
  • Race (biology)
  • White supremacy
  • White (mutation)
  • Tuberculosis
  • Colonialism
  • Gender studies
  • Medicine
  • Sociology
  • Political science