Medical Apartheid: The Dark History Of Medical Experimentation On Black Americans From Colonial Times To The Present
By Harriet Washington…
Please check out this Book TV [Cpan2) video, it is very enlightening. If you don’t have her book, you should really consider purchasing it. These are things that all Black people should know and pass on to future generations.
Journalist and medical ethicist Harriet Washington details medical research on African Americans from colonial times to the 20th century. She describes the "Tuskegee Syphilis Study" that began in 1932 and was conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service. Almost 400 African American men were withheld treatment for syphilis to study how the disease would affect them in its late stages. The author contends that this is just one of several experiments that shaped the way in which African Americans relate to today’s medical industry.
