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African Americans--Medical care - History

Human experimentation in medicine

Medical ethics

Medicine--Research

Patients--Legal status

Physicians--Malpractice

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Tuskegee Syphillis Study

Victims of crime--Legal status

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The Plutonium Files by Eileen Welsome
Call Number: 616.989 W46p
Publication Date: 1999
Cold War scientists targeted American adults, children, the mentally disabled, minorites and the poor for radio-isotope "tracer" studies to test for the effects of plutonium radation. These tests were frequently done without the subject's consent and in some cases caused excruciating side effects and premature deaths.
The Case of Terri Schiavo by Arthur L. Caplan (Editor); Jay Wolfson (Foreword by)
Call Number: 179.7 C266
Publication Date: 2006
The case of Terri Schiavo, a young woman who spent 15 years in a persistent vegetative state, has emerged as a watershed in debates over end-of-life care. While many observers had thought the right to refuse medical treatment was well established, this case split a family, divided a nation, and counfounded physicians, legislators, and many of the people they treated or represented.
Undue Risk by Jonathan D. Moreno
Call Number: 174.28 M81u
Publication Date: 1999
Radiation, chemical agents and disease-causing agents are tested on people who have not given informed consent and may not even know they were test subjects
Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
Call Number: 174.28 W27m 2006
Publication Date: 2006
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.

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