Journalist and Bioethicist Harriet Washington documented the cruel and painful history of experimentation on Black Americans
In the African-American community, a mistrust of doctors and medical research is widespread and deeply rooted in a history of involuntary, abusive, and non-therapeutic experimentation on Blacks documented since at least the 18th century.
In her acclaimed new book, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Doubleday), journalist and bioethicist Harriet Washington traces this mistrust in the first comprehensive history of the medical mistreatment of African Americans. ...