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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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Medical apartheid [electronic resource] : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present / Harriet A. Washington.
ISBN
9780767929394 (electronic bk.)
076792939X (electronic bk.)
9780767915472
076791547X
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Published
New York : Harlem Moon, ©2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 501 pages) : illustrations.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction, 2007
Description based on print version record.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 02, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-484) and index.
Contents
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.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Human Experimentation - history.
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