Award-winning author, journalist and editor

HARRIET WASHINGTON

discusses her bestselling book

"MEDICAL APARTHEID"

Monday, February 25th

5:00 PM

VCU Student Commons

907 Floyd Avenue

Virginia Rooms

Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation 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 within some black populations. Shocking new details about the government's notorious Tuskegee experiement are revealed, as are similar, less-well-known medical atrocities conducted by the government, the armed forces, prisons, and private institutions.