Medical apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present, Harriet A. Washington

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Medical apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present, Harriet A. Washington

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the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present

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Harriet A. Washington

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• Medical apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present

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• New York, Doubleday, ©2006

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-484) and index

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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

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25 cm

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1st ed.

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x, 501 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates

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9780385509930

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2005051873

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