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(Download) Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on
Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

(Download) Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans
from Colonial Times to the Present
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Apartheid: The Dark
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National Book Critics Circle Award Winner (Nonfiction)PEN/Oakland Award WinnerBCALA
Nonfiction Award WinnerGustavus Meyers Award Winner“This groundbreaking study
documents that the infamous Tuskegee experiment, in which black syphilitic men were studied but
not treated, was simply the most publicized in a long, and continuing, history of the American
medical establishment using African Americans as unwitting or unwilling human guinea pigs . . .
Washington is a great storyteller, and in addition to giving us an abundance of information on
‘scientific racism,†the book, even at its most disturbing, is compulsively readable. It covers
a wide range of topics—the history of hospitals not charging black patients so that, after death,
their bodies could be used for anatomy classes; the exhaustive research done on black prisoners
throughout the 20th century—and paints a powerful and disturbing portrait of medicine, race, sex,
and the abuse of power.― —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Medical ethicist and
journalist Washington details the abusive medical practices to which African Americans have been
subjected. “She begins her shocking history in the colonial period, when owners would hire out
or sell slaves to physicians for use as guinea pigs in medical experiments. Into the 19th century,
black cadavers were routinely exploited for profit by whites who shipped them to medical schools
for dissection and to museums and traveling shows for casual public display. The most notorious
case here may be the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which about 600 syphilitic men were left
untreated by the U.S. Public Health Service so it could study the progression of the disease, but
Washington asserts that it was the forerunner to a host of similar medical abuses . . . African
American skepticism about the medical establishment and reluctance to participate in medical
research is an unfortunate result. One of her goals in writing this book, aside from documenting a
shameful past, is to convince them that they must participate actively in therapeutic medical
research, especially in areas that most affect their communityâ€s health, while remaining ever
alert to possible abuses. “Sweeping and powerful.― —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Read
more HARRIET A. WASHINGTON has been a fellow in ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a
fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a senior research scholar at the National Center
for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. As a journalist and editor, she has worked for USA Today
and several other publications, been a Knight Fellow at Stanford University and has written for
such academic forums as the Harvard Public Health Review and The New England Journal of
Medicine. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards for her work. Washington lives in New

York City. Read more See all Editorial Reviews