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: 9780767915472

ISBN-10: 076791547X

ISBN-13: 9780767915472

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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 Apartheidis 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…

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List price: $20.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.15" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction: The American Janus of Medicine and Race



A Troubling Tradition



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 Usual Subjects



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



Race, Technology, and Medicine



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


Appendix


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index