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Medical Apartheid is the first comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. It traces the systematic use of black individuals—from slaves to free people—to the modern era, documenting grave-robbing, unauthorized autopsies, and the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism that justified discriminatory treatment. The book uncovers the infamous Tuskegee experiment and other government, military, prison, and private atrocities, showing how these abuses have shaped current racial health disparities and deepened mistrust of the medical establishment. Washington’s meticulous research offers an essential context for public health and racial justice discussions.
First publish date: 2006
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Harriet A. Washington
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