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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Harriet A. Washington · 2007 · 501 pages
Examines the history of medical experimentation on African Americans, from the colonial era to the present day, revealing the exploitation and poor medical treatment suffered by blacks, often without any form of consent.
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Isabel Wilkerson
“The coronavirus has especially ravaged Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities, in keeping with centuries-old disparities that recall a history of dehumanization and even brutal experimentation. The medical ethicist Harriet Washington’s ground breaking work is, to me, the leading and definitive analysis of the long history of medical abuse of African-Americans in the United States. One must be mentally prepared to read of the price paid, the suffering endured, of what was inflicted upon African-Americans in the name of medical progress.”↗
Kelly Wickham Hurst
“Anyway. Read Harriet Washington’s book, Medical Apartheid. I’m finishing Dying of Whiteness right now and that was a doozy, too. Y’all.”↗