Medical apartheid : (Record no. 7371)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780767915472
Qualifying information (paperback)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 076791547X
Qualifying information (paperback)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency TULAW
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency TZ-ArACH
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Geographic area code n-us---
049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC)
Holding library TZAA
050 14 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number R853
Item number .W37 2006
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Washington, Harriet A.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Medical apartheid :
Remainder of title the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present /
Statement of responsibility, etc Harriet A. Washington.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st pbk. ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York, NY :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Harlem Moon,
Date of publication, distribution, etc [2008?]
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent x, 501 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
Other physical details illustrations ;
Dimensions 21 cm
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Originally published: New York : Doubleday, �2006.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-484) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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 Siecle 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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Human experimentation in medicine
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element African Americans
General subdivision Medical care
-- History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element African Americans.
650 #2 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Human Experimentation
General subdivision ethics
650 #2 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Human Experimentation
General subdivision history
650 #2 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Black or African American
650 #6 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Expérimentation humaine en médecine
Geographic subdivision Etats-Unis
General subdivision Histoire.
650 #6 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Noirs américains
General subdivision Soins médicaux
-- Histoire.
650 #6 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Noirs américains.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element African American.
Source of heading or term aat
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element African Americans
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650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element African Americans
General subdivision Medical care
Source of heading or term fast
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Human experimentation in medicine
Source of heading or term fast
651 #2 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name United States
651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name United States
Source of heading or term fast
655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term History
Source of term fast
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African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights Library African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights Library 10/09/2025 R853 .W37 2006 10037012 Books

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