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Author Washington, Harriet A.
Title Medical apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present / Harriet A. Washington.
Publication Info New York : Anchor Books, 2008.
Edition 1st Anchor Books (Broadway Books) ed.


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 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  R853.H8 W37 2008  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  R853.H8 W37 2008  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE
1 copy being processed for BJL Leisure reading - mezzanine floor.
1 copy being processed for BJL Leisure reading - mezzanine floor.

Descript x, 501 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Edition 1st Anchor Books (Broadway Books) ed.
Note "National Book Critics Circle award winner"--Cover
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.
ISBN 9780767915472
076791547x
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Author Washington, Harriet A.
Subject Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Medical care -- History.
African Americans -- Medical care.
Human experimentation in medicine.
United States.
Diversify the library collection.
Descript x, 501 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Edition 1st Anchor Books (Broadway Books) ed.
Note "National Book Critics Circle award winner"--Cover
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.
ISBN 9780767915472
076791547x
Author Washington, Harriet A.
Subject Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Medical care -- History.
African Americans -- Medical care.
Human experimentation in medicine.
United States.
Diversify the library collection.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  R853.H8 W37 2008  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  R853.H8 W37 2008  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE
1 copy being processed for BJL Leisure reading - mezzanine floor.
1 copy being processed for BJL Leisure reading - mezzanine floor.

Subject Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Medical care -- History.
African Americans -- Medical care.
Human experimentation in medicine.
United States.
Diversify the library collection.
Descript x, 501 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Note "National Book Critics Circle award winner"--Cover
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.
ISBN 9780767915472
076791547x

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