Bharathiar University Describes Findings in Bioethics (Epilepsy, Ethics, Ethnicity: "Making and Unmaking" Elsie Lacks at Crownsville State Hospital in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks).

This article focuses on a peer-reviewed study from Bharathiar University in Tamil Nadu, India, examining the bioethical and disability-related challenges faced by Black epileptic women in medical history and psychiatric care. The research critiques how white-dominated psychiatric institutions have historically marginalized these women by conflating impairment with disability, often undermining their dignity. Using a combined medical and social model of disability, the study analyzes racial and gender biases in treatment, with a case study on Elsie Lacks, an epileptic woman subjected to medical experimentation. The article highlights the intersection of racism, ableism, and psychiatric practices affecting Black epileptic women, contributing to disability bioethics scholarship. [Extracted from the article]