Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
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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.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Harlem Moon, Illustrated edition (8 Jan. 2008) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 501 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 076791547X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0767915472 |
| Dimensions | 13.92 x 2.77 x 20.85 cm |
by Zenaida
Thank you to Miss Washington for taking on this researching and consolidating these atrocities. How a human being can behave in such a way, purely by accident by birth.I cannot put the book down, the only criticism is why do they have to have the FONT so small? I could have read it much faster without being held back and such a struggle. I doubt that we have progressed that much as humanity, it only comes back in different face.
by gerry
This Book is not for the faint-heart it exposes Americas Dark hidden Secrets.Harriet Washington reveals the racial discrimination and the mentality of some of those who used their power and position to manipulate and experiment on some Black group of people in America. I had gone to New York where I decided to go to Harlem to visit Museums,Bookshops, basically places of history and Education. It was when a man I met in a bookshop introduced me to this book I couldn’t get a copy, after returning to the UK I managed order one on Amazon. Since then I have also managed to acquire a copy of a documentary version of this book with those that were experimented on giving interviews of what took place then. We have heard and read of some of the atrocities that Hitler committed by writers from America and the UK and indeed the world. What I have deducted so far from this book is that it is convenient for some writers not to discuss atrocities committed through blatant illegal experiments, it becomes very clear that some information are worthwhile written about than others.More of this sort need to be written to expose the hypocrisy of this world. I dread to think that such experiments are still taking place in this day and age. Food for thought. I recommend this book big time, an eye opener
by lloyd muhammad
Excellent read. Well researched and informative.
by Valencia
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
This book is a gruesome to read, painful, disturbing, perversion on the sexual assault on black Women bodies, I could go on and add more meaning disturbing words.
The murder of a very young child who had nothing wrong, medically.
I thank the author Harriet A Washington, for her dedicated research by looking for the data and medical notes at the time by the Scientist and Doctors, who were carrying out, their Demonic Deeds.
Thank you Harriet A Washington, for resurrecting these innocent people and bringing their painful torture, to light.
by Unknown
This is require reading for all medical students. The level of brutalising, destruction and deceiving that these doctors has done to human bodies and destroying lives is beyond comprehensible for me to hold that other human beings with a heart could be this evil is terrifying. I would like to walk into every Black persons’ homes I know and see MEDICAL APARTHEID and A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE. What Harriet A. Washington has done is handed out tools of knowledge. When I read these books I felt ashame not knowing they existed.
by Shemayne Walker
So far so good.
Content is amazing. A must read for medical professionals in my opinion.
by Mr. M. Hetep
Not just a fascinating, well researched, powerful and absorbing book but also beautifully written piece of work by the author Harriet A. Washington from first page to last. I bought a second copy for a friend who is equally impressed by the authorship and disturbed by the subject matter. I would certainly highly recommend this book to anyone interested in purchasing a copy.
by Amazon Customer
Fantastic fantastic fantastic spot on and so true in all behaviour s ???????????????? Which I’ve observed myself an others. The secrecy an hidden agenda s can never go undetected for most of us who are refusing indenyal ???????? so uplifting book thank you so much❤️❤️❤️ Worth every penny