Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Harriet A. Washington

528 pages • first pub 2007 (view editions) user-added

nonfiction health history race science challenging informative slow-paced
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The deliberate, morally engaged reader who welcomes a dense, unsettling investigation into systemic injustice and wants their assumptions about medical progress and racial equity rigorously overturned.

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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...

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