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Description edit
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... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
- - One of the most important books I have ever read, this is a dark look at the history of medicine for black people.
Characters/People edit
- Marion Sims: Add a description of this character.
- Basson
- Elmer Allen
- Sam
- Barnum
- Johnson
- Kligman
- Saenger
- Sanger
- M.d.
- Yeagin
- Brown
- Cade
- Henry Moss
- Baartman
- Bailey
- Hamer
- Jesse Williams
- Goosen
- Bozeman
- Verner
- Butler
- Haiselden
- Smith
- Isaac
- Andy
- Patterson
- Harris
- Quinn
- Thomas Jefferson
- Hartzenberg
- Bryce
- Dorothy Pelote
- Hamilton
- Clinton
- Wilborn
- Leopold
- Hornaday
- Khoi
- Noel
- Katz
Setting & Locations edit
- United States
- New York City
- Alabama
- Philadelphia
- South Africa
- Virginia
- Georgia
- South Carolina
- America
- California
- Washington
- Florida
- Maryland
- Holmesburg Prison
- Macon County
- Mississippi
- Chicago
- Europe
- Richmond
- Norplant
- Baltimore
- Truro
- San Francisco
- D.c.
- Atlanta
- Columbia
- Kentucky
- Boston
- Tennessee
- London
- Massachusetts
- Cobb
- Texas
- Augusta
- Harlem
- Paris
- Illinois
- Michigan
- Pennsylvania
- Charleston
- Miami
- England
- Louisiana
- Nashville
Series & Lists edit
Authors & Contributors edit
- Harriet A. Washington (Author)
Awards edit
- National Book Critics Circle Award (2007: General Nonfiction)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 174.28
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology › Race Relations › Apartheid
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › African-American Studies
- Books › Professional & Technical › Medical › Medicine › Medical Ethics
- Books › Medicine › Special Topics › History
- Books › Medicine › Physician & Patient › Medical Ethics
- Books › Medicine › Research
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