Medical Apartheid
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| Author | Harriet A. Washington |
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| Audio read by | Ron Butler |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Unethical human experimentation in the United States |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 9 January 2007 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print, e-book |
| Pages | 512 pp. |
| ISBN | 978-0385509930 |
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present is a 2007 book by Harriet A. Washington. It is a history of medical experimentation on African Americans. From the era of slavery to the present day, this book presents the first detailed account of black Americans' abuse as unwitting subjects of medical experimentation.
Medical Apartheid won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-fiction. Washington's work helped lead to the American Medical Association's apology to the nation's black physicians in 2008 and the removal of the James Marion Sims statue from Central Park in 2018.