Medical Apartheid
The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
by Harriet A. Washington
Recommended by Sophie Bakalar and Kelly Wickham Hurst
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Science, History, and Nonfiction.
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 b...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Science, History, and Nonfiction.
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Sophie Bakalar
“Anyway. Read Harriet Washington’s book, Medical Apartheid. I’m finishing Dying of Whiteness right now and that was a doozy, too. Y’all.”
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