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050	1	4	_aR853 _b.W37 2006
100	1		_aWashington, Harriet A.
245	1	0	_aMedical apartheid : _bthe dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present / _cHarriet A. Washington.
250			_a1st pbk. ed.
260			_aNew York, NY : _bHarlem Moon, _c[2008?]
300			_ax, 501 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c21 cm
500			_aOriginally published: New York : Doubleday, �2006.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 465-484) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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			_aThe 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	_aHuman experimentation in medicine _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xMedical care _xHistory.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans.
650		2	_aHuman Experimentation _xethics
650		2	_aHuman Experimentation _xhistory
650		2	_aBlack or African American
650		6	_aExpérimentation humaine en médecine _zEtats-Unis _xHistoire.
650		6	_aNoirs américains _xSoins médicaux _xHistoire.
650		6	_aNoirs américains.
650		7	_aAfrican American. _2aat
650		7	_aAfrican Americans _2fast
650		7	_aAfrican Americans _xMedical care _2fast
650		7	_aHuman experimentation in medicine _2fast
651		2	_aUnited States
651		7	_aUnited States _2fast
655		7	_aHistory _2fast
856	4	1	_3Sample text _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0704/2005051873-s.html
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005051873-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005051873-d.html
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