Author: Harriet A. Washington
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 grave-robbing…
I haven't even finished the book and already I've been raving about it and recommending it to anyone who shows any interest it. Washington is an excellent writer. Her research not only illuminates an… Excellent book. Offers a well-researched analysis of how Black Americans have been victimized by the medical establishment and
its impact on health seeking behavior. This is very important as we…
