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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful 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 u

Medical Apartheid

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    A Paperback / softback by Harriet A. Washington

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Random House Inc
      Published 8 January 2008
      ISBN-13 9780767915472
      978-0767915472
      ISBN-10 076791547X
      Also in:
      History of the Americas Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful 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 u

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