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Medical Apartheid
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present | Harriet A. Washington
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner (Nonfiction) PEN/Oakland Award Winner BCALA Nonfiction Award Winner Gustavus Meyers Award Winner From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black Americas 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 details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledgea tradition that continues today within some black populations. It reveals how blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as unauthorized autopsies and dissections. Moving into the twentieth century, it shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of blacks, and the view that they were biologically inferior, oversexed, and unfit for adult responsibilities. Shocking new details about the governments notorious Tuskegee experiment are revealed, as are similar, less-well-known medical atrocities conducted by the government, the armed forces, prisons, and private institutions. The product of years of prodigious research into medical journals and experimental reports long undisturbed, Medical Apartheid 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. At last, it provides the fullest possible context for comprehending the behavioral fallout that has caused black Americans to view researchersand indeed the whole medical establishmentwith such deep distrust. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read Medical Apartheid, a masterful book that will stir up both controversy and long-needed debate. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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MsLeah8417
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ghandigl

Treatment focuses upon the patient‘s needs; experimentation focuses upon the researchers‘ needs, no matter how much those researchers may invoke possible or future benefits for patients.

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ghandigl

What correlates very closely to most “racial” differences in life expectancy, mortality, disease susceptibility, and survival is the race to which one is perceived as belonging.

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ghandigl

By focusing upon the single event of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study rather than examining a centuries-old pattern of experimental abuse, recent investigations tend to distort the problem, casting African Americans‘ wariness as an overreaction to a single event rather than an understandable, reasonable reaction to the persistent experimental abuse that has characterized American medicine‘s interaction with African Americans.

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thebookpimp
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This is going to be a difficult, but necessary read.

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ErinSBecker
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I just finished reading Medical Apartheid with Blaire (sorry don't know your handle!). It was a fascinating review of US medical history's exploitative relationship with Black Americans. Hard to read but important.

@ChasingOm @Emilymdxn

ChasingOm I think her handle is @Blaire 😄 (if it‘s the same person, hah). This book is on my TBR! 4y
ErinSBecker @ChasingOm lol! Thanks! And definitely recommend moving this up your tbr list if you have the psychological stamina to read something dark right now... 4y
Blaire @chasingom yep it‘s me! 4y
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Conservio

“ By 1851 Cartwright had also discovered and described host of imaginary “black” diseases, whose principal symptoms seemed to be a lack of enthusiasm for slavery”

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Conservio
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Reading this for my #bookclub that isfocused on #femalesciencewriters.

Ember is joining me in my new reading spot. Trying a honey lavender cider.

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ErinSBecker

My leg collapsed under me while I was dancing around with the toddler last night. I haven't been able to walk all day. Have a cane now borrowed from a neighbor so a bit more mobile but still difficult. Good news is I have time to read, bad news is I can't get up to get the books I want so I'm reading whatever is in the room I land in. Luckily I have a bookshelf in almost every room. 😆

rabbitprincess Ouch! I hope your leg is back to full strength soon. Good strategy to have books in every room! 4y
ravenlee Oh no! I hope you have a swift recovery. 4y
ErinSBecker Thank you for the well wishes @rabbitprincess and @ravenlee 4y
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KVanRead Oh dear! Hope it mends fast! 4y
BookmarkTavern Yikes! I hope you feel better real soon! ❤️ 4y
ErinSBecker Thank you @KVanRead and @ozma.of.oz! 4y
PurpleTulipGirl Hope tomorrow is better! 4y
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Scary! I hope all is well and you heal up quickly! 4y
ErinSBecker Thank you @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick and @PurpleTulipGirl , it hasn't gotten any better so I'm going to try to go to urgent care tomorrow. Wish me luck! 4y
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And for today, one that is sitting on my #BLMTBR list. I added this one to my to-read list the LAST time we were arguing about who has statues & monuments (and now that the topic has rolled back around, I‘m reminded that I wanted to read this book). It came to my attention then learning that the “Father of Modern Gynecology” who has multiple statues and did great things for women‘s health experimented on slaves, without anesthesia More info ⤵️

Powered_By_Plants Chilling 😞 , reminds me of the treatment in the concentration camps. Those poor women 💕 4y
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Butterfinger Makes me ill. 4y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Powered_By_Plants Exactly, I understand that he was a product of his time, he made great medical advances, but come on...as a doctor he understood bodily disease enough to know what issue they had white women had, he knew their bodies were the same, but he used them to do things he could not get away with on white women of his day. 🤮 4y
GingerAntics I haven‘t read this book, but I have read other books and articles on this topic. It‘s horrible. 4y
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Conservio
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This has been on shelf for a few years. In light of recent Events, it‘s time I read it.

#blm #medicine #nonfiction #racism #ethics

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raven.deona
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This book has been sitting on my shelf for years. I haven‘t touched it because I knew that it would be a heavy read. With my father battling stage 4 lung cancer and my grandmother battling Alzheimer‘s, I‘ve been extremely interested in any and all medical based book.

I‘ve only read the intro, but I‘m so excited to finish it! I found myself researching studies or events mentioned so this read could take a while.

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MsLeah8417
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I currently reading all three of these must have books. I love having the option of an e-reader, an audiobook and print copy. My preference is having the actual book but audiobooks are great on road trips!😊📚

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MsLeah8417
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It‘s Day 2 of Black History Month!

Have you created a TBR pile for the month of February?

Nickinpa I want to read this one but I haven‘t gotten to it yet. 6y
MsLeah8417 I am hoping to finish it during Women‘s History Month!😊📚✊🏾 6y
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TheBookbabeblog84
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I try....I really try not to be shocked but...really? #whatisthisish #whatthefuck

Paula3 😝 7y
CouronneDhiver At least they‘re aware it‘s “uncomplimentary” 7y
TheBookbabeblog84 @CouronneDhiver the writer is calling the photos etc uncomplimentary; the doctors/scientist of the age gave zero craps about displaying black bodies. They would allow African men and women‘s genitalia be touched by the masses. 7y
CouronneDhiver Ugh. 😠 7y
TheBookbabeblog84 @CouronneDhiver this book is giving me an education on some things I wish I didn‘t know now. It‘s so horrible. 7y
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TheBookbabeblog84
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I can‘t even imagine! #books #booklover #bookaddict

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TheBookbabeblog84
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Sometimes you really have to wonder how people couldn‘t see the humanity in others! #medicalapartheid #books #medicalhistory

Aimeesue Recent studies suggest that that's been a persistent myth - Black men are routinely given less pain medication that are people of other groups. 😡 6y
TheBookbabeblog84 @Aimeesue i hope this study also talks about black women; have you seen the info on the death crisis of black women and their babies? 6y
Aimeesue @TheBookbabeblog84 Black women get hit with it twice as bad, because doctors also (STILL!) don't believe women about their pain. NPR's 1A program did a whole hour about the horrors surrounding Black women and childbirth this week. It was astounding. Made me furious. (edited) 6y
TheBookbabeblog84 @Aimeesue i will have to see if I can get a hold of that NPR episode 6y
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TheBookbabeblog84
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This book is not for the light of heart.....#books #medicalapartheid #socialjustice #readthis

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TheBookbabeblog84
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This quote 😳....it‘s crazy to think that doctors could disassociate themselves from seeing the humanity and dignity in others. #books #medicalresearch #scaryshit

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TheBookbabeblog84
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The City of NY announced that finally J. Marion Sims statue will be coming down. The things this man did to enslaved women....
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/nyregion/nyc-sims-statue-central-park-monu... #history #medicine #jmarionsims

CoCo_Chasing_Adventures 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 7y
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MsLeah8417
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I listened to an Instagram Live discussion about this today and felt the need to share this title with others.

Samplergal Oh my. I hope I have the stomach to read it. Harriet Lacks was difficult to read and in comparison I‘m sure it‘s mild. I have added it to my list. Thanks for sharing. 7y
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Merchgal
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Book 6 of 2018: “One of the most tenacious beliefs was that blacks did not feel pain or anxiety, which excused painful surgical explorations without anesthesia on blacks.” #HarrietAWashinton

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Conservio
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All nonfiction. Oxygen, viruses, and unethical experimentation. What more could a woman ask for? #tbr #bookhaul

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ProfMasala
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I'm moving and thought I'd snap a few pics from my desk.

Masala is a spice mix. I'd like to think that describes me. A spice mix. A little heat, salt and comfort. My books from the desk are a mix of my professional and personal interests as a clinician, academic and writer. #blackwomen #feminism #queer

I've read, presented from, lectured on these books at some point.

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Cocothekiller
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Great read. Historical analysis of medical experimentation and abuses of African Americans, from slavery to present day. Sanctioned experiments on the inmate population, unwitting poor communities, and more. Eye opening and very well assembled.