A Double Dose

Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentaion on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge-a tradition that continues today with some black populations. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read.

"This eye-opening account offers an inside look into how the pharmaceutical industry, aided and abetted by FDA policies carries out ethically problematic research in developing countries.-Ruth Macklin, professor of bioethics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine