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(Download) Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americansfrom Colonial Times to the Present(Download) MedicalApartheid: The DarkHistory of MedicalExperimentation onBlack Americans fromColonial Times to thePresentDescriptionNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner (Nonfiction)PEN/Oakland Award WinnerBCALANonfiction Award WinnerGustavus Meyers Award Winnerâ€œThis groundbreaking studydocuments that the infamous Tuskegee experiment, in which black syphilitic men were studied butnot treated, was simply the most publicized in a long, and continuing, history of the Americanmedical 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 onâ€˜scientific racism,â€ the book, even at its most disturbing, is compulsively readable. It coversa wide range of topicsâ€”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 prisonersthroughout the 20th centuryâ€”and paints a powerful and disturbing portrait of medicine, race, sex,and the abuse of power.â€• â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review)â€œMedical ethicist andjournalist Washington details the abusive medical practices to which African Americans have beensubjected. â€œShe begins her shocking history in the colonial period, when owners would hire outor 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 schoolsfor dissection and to museums and traveling shows for casual public display. The most notoriouscase here may be the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which about 600 syphilitic men were leftuntreated by the U.S. Public Health Service so it could study the progression of the disease, butWashington asserts that it was the forerunner to a host of similar medical abuses . . . AfricanAmerican skepticism about the medical establishment and reluctance to participate in medicalresearch is an unfortunate result. One of her goals in writing this book, aside from documenting ashameful past, is to convince them that they must participate actively in therapeutic medicalresearch, especially in areas that most affect their communityâ€s health, while remaining everalert to possible abuses. â€œSweeping and powerful.â€• â€”Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Readmore HARRIET A. WASHINGTON has been a fellow in ethics at the Harvard Medical School, afellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a senior research scholar at the National Centerfor Bioethics at Tuskegee University. As a journalist and editor, she has worked for USA Todayand several other publications, been a Knight Fellow at Stanford University and has written forsuch academic forums as the Harvard Public Health Review and The New England Journal ofMedicine. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards for her work. Washington lives in New
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