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Medical Apartheid

Harriet A. Washington

A history of how Black Americans were used in medical research without equal protection, and why ethical research requires meaningful consent and an honest reckoning with that past.

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17 parts, about 34 minutes to read.

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Harriet A. Washington
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17 parts
Reading time
about 34 minutes
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What the summary covers

  1. Introduction: The American Janus of Medicine and Race2 min
  2. Southern Discomfort2 min
  3. Profitable Wonders2 min
  4. Circus Africanus2 min
  5. The Surgical Theater2 min
  6. The Restless Dead2 min
  7. Diagnosis: Freedom2 min
  8. What Really Happened at Tuskegee?2 min
  9. The Black Stork: Control of Reproduction2 min
  10. Nuclear Winter: Radiation Experiments2 min
  11. Caged Subjects: Research on Prisoners2 min
  12. The Children's Crusade: Young Research Subjects2 min
  13. Genetic Perdition: Promise and Bias2 min
  14. Infection and Inequity2 min
  15. The Machine Age: Surgical Technology2 min
  16. Aberrant Wars: Biological Weapons2 min
  17. Epilogue: Research with Black Americans Today2 min

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