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Washington, Harriet A.
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Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History.
Blacks -- United States -- Medical care -- History.
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Washington, Harriet A.
Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History.
Blacks -- United States -- Medical care -- History.
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Medical
apartheid : the dark
history
of
medical
experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present / Harriet A. Washington.
by
Washington, Harriet A.
Anchor Books/Harlem Moon, a division of Random House, 2008.
Call #:
174.28 W318m
Subjects
Human experimentation in medicine
--
United
States
--
History
.
Blacks
--
United
States
--
Medical
care
--
History
.
ISBN:
9780385509930 (hc)
9780767915472 (pbk)
Edition:
1st Anchor Books (Broadway Books) ed.
Description:
x, 501 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
First published in hardcover by Doubleday in 2006.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-484) and index.
Summary:
"From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full
history
of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the
medical
establishment.
Medical
Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive
history
of
medical
experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western
medical
researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge
--
a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It reveals how
blacks
have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as unauthorized autopsies and dissections. Moving into the twentieth century, it shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy
medical
treatment of
blacks
, and the view that they were biologically inferior, oversexed, and unfit for adult responsibilities. Shocking new details about the government’s notorious Tuskegee experiment are revealed, as are similar, less-well-known
medical
atrocities conducted by the government, the armed forces, prisons, and private institutions. The product of years of prodigious research into
medical
journals and experimental reports long undisturbed,
Medical
Apartheid reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and makes possible, for the first time, an understanding of the roots of the African American health deficit. At last, it provides the fullest possible context for comprehending the behavioral fallout that has caused black Americans to view researchers
--
and indeed the whole
medical
establishment
--
with such deep distrust. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read
Medical
Apartheid, a masterful book that will stir up both controversy and long-needed debate.
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