Medical Apartheid

1 About this book

From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America’s 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 knowledge—a 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.

Good for readers who want: history, business, and a long read.

• Ethics
• Human experimentation in medicine
• History
• Human experimentation in medicine, history
• Business & economics
• Business ethics
• African americans, history
• Applied