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

Name: Medical Apartheid The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
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ISBN: 9780385509930

ISBN-10: 0385509936

ISBN-13: 9780385509930

Edition: 2006

Authors: Harriet A. Washington

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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…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/9/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.55" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Introduction : the American Janus of medicine and race


Southern discomfort : medical exploitation on the plantation


Profitable wonders : antebellum medical experimentation with slaves and freedmen


Circus Africanus : the popular display of black bodies


The surgical theater : black bodies in the antebellum clinic


The restless dead : anatomical dissection and display


Diagnosis : freedom : the civil war, emancipation, and Fin de Siecle medical research


"A notoriously syphilis-soaked race" : what really happened at Tuskegee?


The black stork : the eugenic control of African American reproduction


Nuclear winter : radiation experiments on African Americans


Caged subjects : research on black prisoners


The children's crusade : research targets young African Americans


Genetic perdition : the rise of molecular bias


Infection and inequity : illness as crime


The machine age : African American martyrs to surgical technology


Aberrant wars : American bioterrorism targets blacks


Epilogue : medical research with blacks today