Medical apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present
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Author
Published
New York : Anchor Books, 2008, c2006.
Format
Book
Edition
1st Anchor Books (Broadway Books) ed.
ISBN
9781448710904
Status
Springfield Main Library - Adult
174.28 WASHINGT 2008
1 available
174.28 WASHINGT 2008
1 available
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Springfield Main Library - Adult | 174.28 WASHINGT 2008 | Available |
Location | Call Number | Status |
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AIC Shea Library - General | RS853 .H8 W37 2008 | Available |
MWCC Library - Circulating Collection | RS853 .H8 W37 2008 | Available |
Southampton Edwards Public Library - Nonfiction | 174.28 Washington | Available |
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Published
New York : Anchor Books, 2008, c2006.
Edition
1st Anchor Books (Broadway Books) ed.
Physical Desc
x, 501 pages : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9781448710904
Notes
General Note
"National Book Critics Circle award winner"--Cover
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-484) and index.
Description
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.
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