Title |
Medical apartheid the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present
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Names |
Washington, Harriet A.
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Book Number |
DB066297
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Title Status |
Active
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Medium |
Digital Book
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Download Link |
Downloadable talking book.
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Annotation |
Documents the use of African Americans in nonconsensual, nontherapeutic research by private institutions and the federal government. Recounts instances of drug and radiation testing, involuntary sterilization, and surgical experimentation. Cites the mid-twentieth-century Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Examines racial and ethical issues in the medical field. Nat'l Book Critics Circle Award. 2006.
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Narrator |
Moore, Bob.
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Local Subject |
Adult Book - AD
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Adult Non-Fiction - AN
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Award-Winning Adult Books - AWA
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Black Interest - BLK
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African American concern - AFRAM
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History - HST
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History, United States - HUS
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Medicine & Health - MED
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Long Book - LO
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Audience Notes |
Male narrator.
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LC Subject |
African Americans - Medical care - History
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Human experimentation in medicine - United States - History
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Call Number |
174.28 ANF
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Language |
English
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Released |
2006
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Publication Info |
Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2006 (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio).
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Original Publication |
Recorded from: New York : Doubleday, c2006. 0385509936
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