- ISBN13: 9780767915472
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Product Description
From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment.
Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it de… More >>
#1 by A. B. Jackson on May 14, 2010 - 1:12 am
6/16/07 author Harriet Washington’s book showed great research: I started with her Appendix ” which is all of 1 sentence (Pg 405) which was entitled “Choosing a Clinic Trial: ; and then scanned the author’s “Acknowlegements: Pg 407-412) in which she lauded many, mentioned many wished to be anonymous, and asked apologies of the many whose names she chose not to name ; and then scanned :the Notes Pgs 413-464* ,which with much detail beginning with “Chapt. 1 :Southern Comfort” to Epilogue: Medical Research With Blacks Today (*e.g Pg 436 note 18 from Chapter 6 “Diagnosis Freedom (author Albert Deutsch”s “”The First U.S. Census (1840) of the Insane and its use in Pro Slavery Propaganda read 2/2/1944 before the New-York Historical Society)…to the Biliography (Pgs 465-484): example: New York Times article(12/11/1934 “Tuberculosis Test Reported Success”..to the Index (Pgs 485-501 incl of Yale University (pgs 5,124,169,258,267). 6/16/07 abj
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by P. Kelley on May 14, 2010 - 3:05 am
Interesting subject to write on, but in the end, this book just serves as another channel for the stereotypical black “the world done me wrong” mindset. Despite the endless stacks of literature on discrimination against black Americans and enslavement of them, there is relatively nothing about the enslavement of –and discrimination against– Irish Americans. Despite there being more Irish slaves in the Americas during the 17th century, their history has conveniently been forgotten and replaced only with unrelenting grievance against black slavery. Now, even though Irish people were often given even less of a lawful backing in every area of social injustice, they’ve become the most educated class in the United States– holding the highest amount of PHD and high graduate degrees per capita. Same/worse discrimination, x1000 success, without the endless NYT-lauded books/novels condemning any segment of society with light skin and/or money. Even if it was hard earned.
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by Dawn on May 14, 2010 - 3:44 am
i gave this as a gift to a black girl who is in graduate school for her MPH degree. She loved it!!! So that made me happy.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Kara K. Tyson on May 14, 2010 - 3:44 am
While I think the book was needed and contains some valuable lessons and truth–there are some things that the author asserts that are subject to debate.
The author tries to equate medical students being photographed as the same as those persons who hunted down people and lynched them. While the method of obtaining bodies for research was truly sickening, the med students photographed are not smiling over their “kill”. The comparison is just not there.
Rating: 3 / 5
#5 by Hollylee on May 14, 2010 - 5:54 am
This book was pretty eye-opening. I’m too young to remember Tuskegee and I grew up in the North so I’ve never felt very racially divided, so this book was very informative. When I was reading this book, I recommended it to everyone I could. It is a ’should read’ not a must read, but if you are interested in medicine, research or just racial injustice, this will be a good read. As the book goes on it does seem like the author was kinda grasping for her theories to hold true in all of these situations. I am aware of inequalities in treatment towards people of different colors (and I’m really sorry that it’s a reality), but I don’t believe it is as prevalent as the author makes it out to be.
Rating: 4 / 5