The first comprehensive history of medical experimentation on Black Americans, from the era of slavery — when enslaved people were used for surgical practice and display — through the Tuskegee syphilis study and into present-day research practices. Washington documents how racist pseudoscience justified the abuse and how that legacy feeds justified distrust of medicine today. The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction.
Author: Harriet A. Washington · Original publisher: Doubleday, 2006 (full title: *Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present*)
