Medical apartheid the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present

Title Medical apartheid the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present
Names Washington, Harriet A.
Book Number DB066297
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Book
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.
Narrator Moore, Bob.
Local Subject Adult Book - AD
Adult Non-Fiction - AN
Award-Winning Adult Books - AWA
Black Interest - BLK
African American concern - AFRAM
History - HST
History, United States - HUS
Medicine & Health - MED
Long Book - LO
Audience Notes Male narrator.
LC Subject African Americans - Medical care - History
Human experimentation in medicine - United States - History
Call Number 174.28 ANF
Language English
Released 2006
Publication Info Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2006 (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio).
Original Publication Recorded from: New York : Doubleday, c2006. 0385509936
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