- Human Experimentation, Medizinische Versorgung, Menschenversuch, Prejudice
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.
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- Author
- Harriet A. Washington
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 501
- Publisher
- Tantor and Blackstone Publishing, Harlem Moon, Anchor Books
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385509930
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Harriet Washington is the author of Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself and of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, which won the 2007 National Book Critics’ Circle Award and was named one of the year’s Best Books by Publishers’ Weekly. She has won many other awards for her work on medicine and ethics and has been a Research Fellow in Ethics at Harvard Medical School, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, a Knight Fellow at Stanford University, a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University and a Visiting Scholar at the DePaul Univer
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