A review by courtofcatsandcoffee
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, by Harriet A. Washington
challenging
dark
informative
sad
slow-paced
5.0
▫️genre: historical non-fic
▫️trope: n/a
▫️format: audio
↠ NINETEEN HOURS LATER 😥
↠ Dense novel documenting the horrific medical experiments performed on Blacks and African-Americans from slavery to present
↠ Extremely graphic, harrowing, read
↠ I’m mad it took me 30 years to learn about this.
↠ The amount of complicit medical schools in the underground trade of black bodies is astounding and all should be held accountable
↠ This book left me feeling angry. Knowing most medical breakthroughs came out of treating black people like lab rats… just sickening
▫️trope: n/a
▫️format: audio
↠ NINETEEN HOURS LATER 😥
↠ Dense novel documenting the horrific medical experiments performed on Blacks and African-Americans from slavery to present
↠ Extremely graphic, harrowing, read
↠ I’m mad it took me 30 years to learn about this.
↠ The amount of complicit medical schools in the underground trade of black bodies is astounding and all should be held accountable
↠ This book left me feeling angry. Knowing most medical breakthroughs came out of treating black people like lab rats… just sickening
Content Warnings
Graphic: Hate crime, Violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Medical trauma, and Emotional abuse