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Medical Apartheid (text only) 1st (First) edition by H. A. Washington

Harriet A. Washington

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner (Nonfiction)PEN/Oakland Award WinnerBCALA Nonfiction Award WinnerGustavus Meyers Award Winner From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the...

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Behind the Bastards

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Behind the Bastards

It was mentioned in the context of how the media and medical accounts racialized early research on crack babies, which amplified existing prejudices.

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Americans were told on the nightly news that crack exposure in the womb destroyed the unique brain functions that distinguish human beings from animals.

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Episode: Cracktoberfest Part One: Constructing the Crack "E...

It was mentioned in the context of how the media and medical accounts racialized early research on crack babies, which amplified existing prejudices.

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Americans were told on the nightly news that crack exposure in the womb destroyed the unique brain functions that distinguish human beings from animals.

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