A review by nuggetworldpeace
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

3.0

Painful to read, mostly for the extensive catalog of prejudices and exploitation Black folks have suffered at the hands of medical research, but also because there’s some questionable editorializing (e.g., asking if the forced treatment of TB is a slippery slope towards imprisoning people who have alcohol use disorder [???]). There has also been some question about the veracity of a handful of the facts presented (https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/books/review/Emanuel.t.html), which might be reasonable for such an in-depth book, but I wish overall the handling of this important topic was less marred by arguments and facts that could be so easily attacked.