Reply #2: You know, that's funny... [View All]

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I used to work in the operating room of a hospital in southern california, and one of my jobs was to move the video monitors in and out of rooms. The first thing I noticed was the "master" and "slave" labels. For a while I didn't really think about it, although I wondered if any of the African-American staffers thought it was offensive. Then, I did some reading on the history of surgery-- it turns out the so-called "father" of gynecology, J. Marion Sims, did all of his early experiments on his SLAVES, WITHOUT ANESTHESIA. Many died, and many more were mutilated and traumatized. Since then, I've been a lot more sensitive about the terms "master" and "slave" in science...