Summary: It's episode 24 and we couldn't think of a better person to talk about this book with! In this episode, UMedics organizer and co-founder Martine Caverl, breaks down the essential Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet Washington. As the book details, Black people have been subject to horrific testing, non-consensual surgeries, and shocking mistreatment since slavery; this is a long tradition of anti-blackness perpetuated as "medicine and science." Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on Black people. The book brings together almost two decades of research, revealing the deep roots of America's racialized health inequity, as well as facilitating a greater understanding and appreciation for why so many Black people view researchers and the medical establishment with such distrust.
