05219cam a22006614a 4500 medicalapartheid0000wash CaSfIA 20250727184522.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 080122s2006 nyua ob 001 0 eng 2008270898 (OCoLC)1153309049 DLC eng DLC BAKER YDXCP BTCTA WSL TBS BTN BDX IAD OCLCF P4I OCLCO WIC OCLCQ NZAYP XBE GILDS JDP FWR OCLCO CSO OCLCO UKUOY PUG OCLCO CaSfIA 9780767915472 (pbk.) 076791547X (pbk.) n-us--- R853.H8 W37 2006b 174.2/8 22 Washington, Harriet A. Medical apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present / Harriet A. Washington. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Harlem Moon, ©2006. 1 online resource (x, 501 pages : illustrations) text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-484) and index. Introduction: The American Janus of medicine and race -- pt. 1. A troubling tradition -- Southern discomfort: medical exploitation on the plantation -- Profitable wonders: antebellum medical experimentation with slaves and freedmen -- Circus Africanus: the popular display of Black bodies -- The surgical theater: Black bodies in the antebellum clinic -- The restless dead: anatomical dissection and display -- Diagnosis: freedom: the Civil War, Emancipation, and Fin de Siècle medical research -- "A notoriously syphilis-soaked race": what really happened at Tuskegee? -- pt. 2. The usual subjects -- The black stork: the eugenic control of African American reproduction -- Nuclear winter: radiation experiments on African Americans -- Caged subjects: research on Black prisoners -- The children's crusade: research targets young African Americans -- pt. 3. Race, technology, and medicine -- Genetic perdition: the rise of molecular bias -- Infection and inequity: illness as crime -- The machine age: African American martyrs to surgical technology -- Aberrant wars: American bioterrorism targets Blacks -- Epilogue: Medical research with blacks today. The first comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between Africans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the way both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without a hint of informed consent--a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of blacks, and a view that they were biologically inferior, oversexed, and unfit for adult responsibilities. New details about the government's Tuskegee experiment are revealed, as are similar, less well-known medical atrocities conducted by the government, the armed forces, and private institutions. This book reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and makes possible, for the first time, an understanding of the roots of the African American health deficit.--From publisher description. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction, 2007 Self-Renewing 2017 UoY Internet Archive - 2 Internet Archive 2 Human experimentation in medicine United States History. African Americans Medical care History. African Americans Medical care. fast (OCoLC)fst00799638 Human experimentation in medicine. fast (OCoLC)fst00963042 United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155 Human Experimentation history. African Americans history. Delivery of Health Care. United States. History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005051873-b.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005051873-d.html Sample text http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0704/2005051873-s.html Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005051873-b.html Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005051873-d.html Sample text http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0704/2005051873-s.html https://archive.org/details/medicalapartheid0000wash Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25664536M Additional information and access via Open Library medicalapartheid0000wash 0 ark:/13960/t1gj85v26