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245 10 a| Medical apartheid :b| the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present /c| Harriet A. Washington.;

250 a| 1st ed.;

300 a| x, 501 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-484) and index.;

505 0 a| 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 Siècle 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.;

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650 0 a| African Americansx| Medical carex| History.=| ^A8737;

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650 2 a| Health Statusz| United States.=| ^A926197;

650 2 a| Prejudicez| United States.=| ^A920012;

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Medical apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present / Harriet A. Washington.

Author/creator	Washington, Harriet A.
Format	Book
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	New York : Anchor Books, a division of Random House, ©2006.
Description	x, 501 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects	Human experimentation in medicine--United States. --History. African Americans--Medical care. --History. Human Experimentation--ethics. --United States. Human Experimentation--history. --United States. Black or African American--history. --United States. Health Status--United States. Prejudice--United States.

Contents	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 Siècle 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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-484) and index.
ISBN	0385509936
ISBN	9780385509930
ISBN	9780767915472
ISBN	076791547X

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