Medical Apartheid
ISBN: 9780767915472 | 076791547X
Edition: 1stFormat: Trade Paper
Publisher: Anchor
Pub. Date: 1/8/2008
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Shocking, sobering, and immensely consequential in its implications, Medical Apartheid is a comprehensive history of the abuse of medical experimentation on African Americans, who have for centuries served as unwilling and unwitting subjects. 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. Book jacket.
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| Introduction: The American Janus of Medicine and Race | p. 1 |
| A Troubling Tradition | |
| Southern Discomfort: Medical Exploitation on the Plantation | p. 25 |
| Profitable Wonders: Antebellum Medical Experimentation with Slaves and Freedmen | p. 52 |
| Circus Africanus: The Popular Display of Black Bodies | p. 75 |
| The Surgical Theater: Black Bodies in the Antebellum Clinic | p. 101 |
| The Restless Dead: Anato... MORE | p. 115 |
| Diagnosis: Freedom: The Civil War, Emancipation, and Fin de Siecle Medical Research | p. 143 |
| "A Notoriously Syphilis-Soaked Race": What Really Happened at Tuskegee? | p. 157 |
| The Usual Subjects | |
| The Black Stork: The Eugenic Control of African American Reproduction | p. 189 |
| Nuclear Winter: Radiation Experiments on African Americans | p. 216 |
| Caged Subjects: Research on Black Prisoners | p. 244 |
| The Children's Crusade: Research Targets Young African Americans | p. 271 |
| Race, Technology, and Medicine | |
| Genetic Perdition: The Rise of Molecular Bias | p. 299 |
| Infection and Inequity: Illness as Crime | p. 325 |
| The Machine Age: African American Martyrs to Surgical Technology | p. 347 |
| Aberrant Wars: American Bioterrorism Targets Blacks | p. 359 |
| Epilogue: Medical Research with Blacks Today | p. 385 |
| Appendix | p. 405 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 407 |
| Notes | p. 413 |
| Bibliography | p. 465 |
| Index | p. 485 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
HARRIET A. WASHINGTON has been a fellow in ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. As a journalist and editor, she has worked for USA Today and several other publications, been a Knight Fellow at Stanford University and has written for such academic forums as the Harvard Public Health Review and The New England Journal of Medicine. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards for her work. Washington lives in New York City.
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