The Complicated (and Racist) Legacy of Dr. J. Marion Sims

"New York City removed a statue of the controversial gynecologist J. Marion Sims from its perch in Central Park. Barron Lerner , bioethicist, historian of medicine and internist at New York University’s Langone Medical Center and the author of The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics   (Beacon Press, 2014), and Harriet Washington , medical ethicist and the author of  Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness   (Back Bay Books, 2016), discuss the legacy of the doctor who experimented on slaves, but also pioneered the cure for fistula, a complication of childbirth, and what his story teaches us about ethics in medicine.' -- WNYC