Stephen Kenny has published extensively on the histories of race, health, and medicine under American slavery and Jim Crow and is particularly interested in histories of hospitals, anatomy, and human experiments. He is currently working on a couple of book-length publications. 'Before Tuskegee: racism, power and the culture of medicine under slavery and Jim Crow' examines human experimentation in the United States before and after the Civil War, which was by no means rare in either time period.