Medical apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present
(Book)
"[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.
Notes
Washington, H. A. (2006). Medical apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present. 1st pbk. ed. New York, Harlem Moon.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Washington, Harriet A. 2006. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation On Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present. New York, Harlem Moon.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Washington, Harriet A, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation On Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present. New York, Harlem Moon, 2006.
MLA Citation (style guide)Washington, Harriet A. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation On Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present. 1st pbk. ed. New York, Harlem Moon, 2006.
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505 | 0 | |a Introduction: The American Janus of medicine and race -- pt. 1. 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? -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. 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. | |
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