SPRING 2025
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ONLINE MUSEUM
Students (all members of The University of Texas at San Antonio Honors College) put a tremendous amount of work and research into this exhibit. All topics were gathered in the context of the course, Monstrous Medicine: Medical Experimentation in U.S. Historical Contexts.
Alana Schwartz
Major: Anthropology
Minor/Concentration: pre-health
Class of 2025
Contributed: Is a Paralytic Drug the Cause of a Patient's Death? Or the Nursing System? , The Love Drug (MDMA): Breaking or Healing Hearts for Those with PTSD?
Edited: Worcester State Hospital’s Birth Control Pill Trials, Xenotransplantation, using animal organs to save human lives
Uncovering and fully understanding the impact of our past actions helps us reflect, recognize our shared humanity, and ensure that as we move forward, no one is left behind.
I plan to become a physician who centers mental health, public health, and the human side of care through an anthropological lens.
Emily León
Major: Biology
Minor/Concentration: Pre-Health
Class of 2025
Contributed: Is your DNA for Sale? The Hidden Costs of 23andMe & Medical Marijuana Trials
Edited: Beagle Trials: Pesticide Testing on Beagles & Depo Provera: A contraceptive Injection that did more than prevent pregnancy
Discussing medical history is crucial. It reveals the pain, neglect, and exploitation that often shaped today's advancements. Understanding this past is a responsibility that anyone entering the medical field or any related discipline must learn from.
In the future, I aspire to pursue a career in healthcare and operate my own non-profit organization to serve back to communities in need.
Mia Paxton
Major: Criminal Justice
Minor/Concentration
Class of 2027
Contributed: LGBT Blood, CPR and Women
Edited: One Radioactive Accident & Many Consequences, Masked Intentions With Fenfluramine
This history is important so that we don't repeat it, I think should learn this history so that we can be more empathetic to people and make the same mistakes that we have made in the past.
I plan to get into a court reporting program after college and become a court reporter.
Tamarapreye Seipulou
Major: Biochemistry
Minor/Concentration: Pre-Research
Class of 2027
Contributed: Fitful Unrest, Modern Day Eugenics
Edited:Packing the Mentally ill, Breuning's Legacy: Neuroleptics History
The distrust in Healthcare within our country is destroying us faster than any disease could, and its not the fault of the people but rather the hundreds of years of malpractice and dehumanization happening even today.
I plan to do my best to give families and patients peace of mind and hope.
Valeria Rosales
Major: Biochemistry
Minor/Concentration: Pre-Research
Class of 2026
Contributed: Prison "Food" and Illness, Food Deserts and Health Disparity
Edited: Queer Contagion, Autism "Treatment"
Growing up in a low-income household meant we always had to be resourceful, but sometimes, circumstances don’t allow that, and I think it’s important to highlight the injustices surrounding a basic right. Everyone deserves accessibility to nutritional, healthy, and safe food.
In the future, I plan to earn my Ph. D. in Biochemistry and open my own pharmaceutical with all the knowledge and lessons to prioritize lower-income and minority communities like my folk and family.