Harriet A Washington

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the PresentPaperback, 8 January 2008

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
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Print Length
528 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Anchor Books
Date Published
8 Jan 2008
ISBN-10
076791547X
ISBN-13
9780767915472

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**NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - The first full history of Black America's shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book.
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"[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, carefully documented book." --New York Times

From the era of slavery to the present day, starting with the earliest encounters between Black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, Medical Apartheid 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. 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.

Product Details

Author:
Harriet A Washington
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
8 January 2008
Dimensions:
20.78 x 14.02 x 2.79 cm
ISBN-10:
076791547X
ISBN-13:
9780767915472
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
528
Publisher:
Weight:
408.23 gm

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