Harriet A. Washington

Ron Butler

The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Medical Apartheid

Flavia Louise

This book should be essential reading for medical researchers and personnel everywhere. 
The history told in here is equally horrifying as important. The author does a great job writing about the topic.

Sahi K

I’ll be honest, I don’t think I can write a review for this book because it’ll make me ragey all over again. This is a very difficult book to read not only because of all the racism, bigotry and unethical exploitation of Black people for medical experimentation, but also for us to reconcile with the fact that many progresses in treatments that have been made over the years have been possible because of this exploitation. And that can be a hard pill to swallow. 

But we all need to know this history upon which the world of medicine’s advances have been built on. I had only previously known about the Tuskegee Syphilis trials and a bit about how the birth control pill came to be, there are so many other things that have happened over the centuries that will horrify you. So while I don’t know what trigger warnings to mention for this book, just know that it’s worse than many bad things you can imagine but it’s important to be read and known by everyone.

Jennifer Gregory

A good overview of a far-reaching topic, but too many statistics went uncited, and too many facts touted as "well-known", to escape the need for further support.

Medical Apartheid The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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