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Abortion Under Apartheid

Author : Susanne M. Klausen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190939878
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Abortion Under Apartheid written by Susanne M. Klausen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abortion Under Apartheid examines the politics of abortion in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1990), when termination of pregnancy was criminalized. It analyzes the flourishing clandestine abortion industry, the prosecution of medical and "backstreet" abortionists, and the passage in 1975 of the country's first statutory law on abortion. Susanne M. Klausen reveals how ideas about sexuality were fundamental to apartheid culture and shows that the authoritarian National Party government - alarmed by the spread of "permissiveness" in white society - attempted to regulate white women's reproductive sexuality in the interests of maintaining white supremacy. A major focus of the book is the battle over abortion that erupted in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when doctors and feminists, inspired by international developments, called for liberalization of the colonial-era common law that criminalized abortion. The movement for legal reform spurred a variety of political, social, and religious groups to grapple with the meaning of abortion in the context of changing ideas about the traditional family and women's place within it. Abortion Under Apartheid demonstrates that all women, regardless of race, were oppressed under apartheid. Yet, although the National Party was preoccupied with denying young, unmarried white women reproductive control, black girls and women bore the brunt of the lack of access to safe abortion, suffering the effects on a shocking scale. At the heart of the story are the black and white girls and women who-regardless of hostility from partners, elders, religious institutions, nationalist movements, conservative doctors and nurses, or the government-persisted in determining their own destinies. Although a great many were harmed and even died as a result of being denied safe abortions, many more succeeded in thwarting opponents of women's right to control their capacity to bear children. This book conveys both the tragic and triumphant sides of their story.

Abortion Under Apartheid

Author : Susanne Maria Klausen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780190258122
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book Abortion Under Apartheid written by Susanne Maria Klausen and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the criminalisation of abortion in South Africa during apartheid (1948-1990) and its impact on women of all 'races' determined to terminate unwanted pregnancies. It also traces the emergence of a movement for abortion law reform and the 1975 passage of South Africa's first statutory law on abortion.

A Matter of Choice

Author : June Cope
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A Matter of Choice written by June Cope and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa's abortion laws are more harshly restrictive than the legislation in many other Western countries and have given rise to an active campaign for amendments and the recognition that women should have the right to choose.

Her Body, Our Laws

Author : Michelle Oberman
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807045527
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Her Body, Our Laws written by Michelle Oberman and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With stories from the front lines, a legal scholar journeys through distinct legal climates to understand precisely why and how the war over abortion is being fought. Drawing on her years of research in El Salvador—one of the few countries to ban abortion without exception—legal scholar Michelle Oberman explores what happens when abortion is a crime. Oberman reveals the practical challenges raised by a thriving black market in abortion drugs, as well as the legal challenges to law enforcement. She describes a system in which doctors and lawyers collaborate in order to identify and prosecute those suspected of abortion-related crimes, and the troubling results of such collaboration: mistaken diagnoses, selective enforcement, and wrongful convictions. Equipped with this understanding, Oberman turns her attention to the United States, where the battle over abortion is fought almost exclusively in legislatures and courtrooms. Beginning in Oklahoma, one of the most pro-life states, and through interviews with current and former legislators and activists, she shows how Americans voice their moral opposition to abortion by supporting laws that would restrict it. In this America, the law is more a symbol than a plan. Oberman challenges this vision of the law by considering the practical impact of legislation and policies governing both motherhood and abortion. Using stories gathered from crisis pregnancy centers and abortion clinics, she unmasks the ways in which the law already shapes women’s responses to unplanned pregnancy, generating incentives or penalties, nudging pregnant women in one direction or another. In an era in which every election cycle features a pitched battle over abortion’s legality, Oberman uses her research to expose the limited ways in which making abortion a crime matters. Her insight into the practical consequences that will ensue if states are permitted to criminalize abortion calls attention to the naïve and misguided nature of contemporary struggles over abortion’s legality. A fresh look at the battle over abortion law, Her Body, Our Laws is an invitation to those on all sides of the issue to move beyond the incomplete discourse about legality by understanding how the law actually matters.

Abort! Abortions

Author : Salidor C. Coetzee
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1543759483
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Abort! Abortions written by Salidor C. Coetzee and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2021-03-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABORT! ABORTIONS The Killing Fields Statutory rape and abortion. A true, life event - A must read by everyone. Non-fiction, Religious and Educational contents, many lessons to be learned. How “YOU” and “I” developed and became the “ME”! Everyone has a right to life, even the unborn in the mother’s womb. “OUR BODIES, OUR SOULS”. Far more babies have died in the wombs of their mother’s, than people killed in World War 1 & 2 combined. Many catastrophic events are unfolding, amongst others global warming. However, abortions are a much bigger apocalyptic event than global warming and all the violence and political unrests of the world combined. AN IMPORTANT QUESTION TO ASK OURSELVES. ARE ABORTIONS A WOMAN’S CHOICE OR ARE THEY A MODERN HOLOCAUST? “A PROMISE MADE IS A PROMISE TO KEEP”. One disastrous family event changed my whole life. From a staunch supporter of abortions to a Pro Life Activist. During the last week of May 2010, just before the start of the FIFA World Cup Soccer in South Africa, I promised God through my wife on her deathbed after borrowed to us from a coma, that I will tell the world that ABORTION is a deadly sin, only God can give and take life. Hope the message in the book speaks to the inner soul of each person who reads it. May the message spread and enrich the life’s, of many people. On the foreheads of unborn killed in their mother’s wombs are written “INNOCENT”, a not guilty plea. The reader needs to understand that those innocent unborn babies killed, are now little angels in heaven. The last Chapter of the book teaches about God’s Grace, Love and Forgiveness.

Safe Abortion

Author : Organisation mondiale de la santé
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9241590343
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Safe Abortion written by Organisation mondiale de la santé and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2003-05-13 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a UN General Assembly Special Session in 1999, governments recognised unsafe abortion as a major public health concern, and pledged their commitment to reduce the need for abortion through expanded and improved family planning services, as well as ensure abortion services should be safe and accessible. This technical and policy guidance provides a comprehensive overview of the many actions that can be taken in health systems to ensure that women have access to good quality abortion services as allowed by law.

Without Apology

Author : Jenny Brown
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788735862
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Without Apology written by Jenny Brown and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable guide to building a fighting feminist movement for reproductive freedom With an antiabortion majority on the Supreme Court and several states attempting to outlaw abortion altogether, many activists are on the defensive, hoping to hold on to reproductive rights in a few places and cases. This spirited book shows how feminism can start winning again. Jenny Brown uncovers a century of legal abortion in the United States until 1873, recalls women’s experiences in the illegal days, and shows how the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s really won abortion rights. She draws inspiration and lessons from the radicals of Redstockings, the Army of Three, and the Jane Collective, putting together a road map for today’s organizers from the black feminist argument for reproductive justice, the successful fight to make the morning-after pill available over the counter, and the recent mass movement to repeal Ireland’s abortion ban. Brown argues that politically conservative nonprofits have been setting the agenda, emphasizing rare tragic cases and relying on the rhetoric of choice and privacy. Instead, it is time to return to the fundamental ideas that won legal abortion in the first place: Women publicly telling the full truth of their own experience, demanding repeal of all abortion restrictions, and showing how abortion and birth control are the key demands in the struggle for women’s freedom.

Born a Crime

Author : Trevor Noah
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0399588183
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Born a Crime written by Trevor Noah and published by One World. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid “Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa’s history that must never be forgotten.”—Esquire Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award • Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Time, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Esquire, Newsday, and Booklist Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.

The New Apartheid

Author : Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780624088547
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book The New Apartheid written by Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa's story is often presented as a triumph of new over old, but while formal apartheid was abolished decades ago, stark and distressing similarities persist. Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh explores the edifice of systemic racial oppression -- the new apartheid -- that continues to thrive, despite or even because of our democratic system.

You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town

Author : Zoë Wicomb
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558619151
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town written by Zoë Wicomb and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2015-04-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South African novel of identity that "deserves a wide audience on a par with Nadine Gordimer."

Abortion Services and Reproductive Justice in Rural South Africa

Author : Ulandi du Plessis
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1776148738
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Abortion Services and Reproductive Justice in Rural South Africa written by Ulandi du Plessis and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the challenges faced in accessing and providing abortion services in rural areas, even under progressive abortion legislation Accessing abortion services in rural areas under conditions of liberal abortion legislation is neither straightforward nor simple. As the South African example shows, the liberalization of abortion legislation was the first step in granting pregnant persons access to abortion care. Despite this and some progress in implementation, many challenges persist resulting in a lack of services, especially in areas where distances and transport costs are a factor. Drawing on the findings of a study conducted in three rural districts of the Eastern Cape, the authors highlight the complexities involved in understanding problematic or unwanted pregnancies and abortion services within these communities; the reported barriers to, and facilitators of, access to abortion services among rural populations; and preferences for types of abortion services. A key finding is the conundrum of costs versus confidentiality: lack of confidentiality involves additional costs to access services outside the area; high costs mean that confidentiality may have to be foregone, which leads to stigma. The authors place the findings within a reparative reproductive justice framework and present a comprehensive set of recommendations. Abortion Services and Reproductive Justice in Rural South Africa is an insightful and informative resource – the first of its kind – for scholars in health and sociology, reproductive health policy makers, national planners, health facility managers and providers, and activists.

Native Nostalgia

Author : Jacob Dlamini
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 1770097554
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Native Nostalgia written by Jacob Dlamini and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2009 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the stereotype that black people who lived under South African apartheid have no happy memories of the past, this examination into nostalgia carves out a path away from the archetypical musings. Even though apartheid itself had no virtue, the author, himself a young black man who spent his childhood under apartheid, insists that it was not a vast moral desert in the lives of those living in townships. In this deep meditation on the experiences of those who lived through apartheid, it points out that despite the poverty and crime, there was still art, literature, music, and morals that, when combined, determined the shape of black life during that era of repression.

Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective

Author : Rebecca J. Cook
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812209990
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective written by Rebecca J. Cook and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is increasingly implausible to speak of a purely domestic abortion law, as the legal debates around the world draw on precedents and influences of different national and regional contexts. While the United States and Western Europe may have been the vanguard of abortion law reform in the latter half of the twentieth century, Central and South America are proving to be laboratories of thought and innovation in the twenty-first century, as are particular countries in Africa and Asia. Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective offers a fresh look at significant transnational legal developments in recent years, examining key judicial decisions, constitutional texts, and regulatory reforms of abortion law in order to envision ways ahead. The chapters investigate issues of access, rights, and justice, as well as social constructions of women, sexuality, and pregnancy, through different legal procedures and regimes. They address the promises and risks of using legal procedure to achieve reproductive justice from different national, regional, and international vantage points; how public and courtroom debates are framed within medical, religious, and human rights arguments; the meaning of different narratives that recur in abortion litigation and language; and how respect for women and prenatal life is expressed in various legal regimes. By exploring how legal actors advocate, regulate, and adjudicate the issue of abortion, this timely volume seeks to build on existing developments to bring about change of a larger order. Contributors: Luis Roberto Barroso, Paola Bergallo, Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens, Joanna N. Erdman, Lisa M. Kelly, Adriana Lamačková, Julieta Lemaitre, Alejandro Madrazo, Charles G. Ngwena, Rachel Rebouché, Ruth Rubio-Marín, Sally Sheldon, Reva B. Siegel, Verónica Undurraga, Melissa Upreti.

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

Author : Patrick Phillips
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393293025
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America written by Patrick Phillips and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] vital investigation of Forsyth’s history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America." —U.S. Congressman John Lewis Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. But then in September of 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white girl. One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one-day trial, and soon bands of white “night riders” launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving all 1,098 black citizens out of the county. The charred ruins of homes and churches disappeared into the weeds, until the people and places of black Forsyth were forgotten. National Book Award finalist Patrick Phillips tells Forsyth’s tragic story in vivid detail and traces its long history of racial violence all the way back to antebellum Georgia. Recalling his own childhood in the 1970s and ’80s, Phillips sheds light on the communal crimes of his hometown and the violent means by which locals kept Forsyth “all white” well into the 1990s. In precise, vivid prose, Blood at the Root delivers a "vital investigation of Forsyth’s history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America" (Congressman John Lewis).

When She Was White

Author : Judith Stone
Publisher : Miramax Books
ISBN 13 : 9781401309374
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book When She Was White written by Judith Stone and published by Miramax Books. This book was released on 2008-04-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the worst years of official racism in South Africa, the story of one young girl gripped the nation and came to symbolize the injustice, corruption, and arbitrary nature of apartheid. Born in 1955 to a pro-apartheid Afrikaner couple, Sandra Laing was officially registered and raised as a white child. But when she was sent to a boarding school for whites, she was mercilessly persecuted because of her dark skin and frizzy hair. Her parents attributed Sandra's appearance to an interracial union far back in history; they swore Sandra was their child. Their neighbors, however, thought Mrs. Laing had committed adultery with a black man. The family was shunned. And when Sandra was ten, she was removed from school by the police and reclassified as "coloured." As a teenager, Sandra eloped with a black man, and her parents disowned her. The young woman, who had only known the privileged world of the whites, chose to begin again in a poor, rural, all-black township, where life was a desperate, day-to-day struggle against poverty, illness, and a legal system designed to enslave. In this remarkable narrative, veteran journalist and author Judith Stone takes us on her own eye-opening journey as she and Sandra explore the mysteries of Sandra's past and piece together the fractured life of one of apartheid's many victims. As the devastating circumstances of Sandra's life are revealed, Stone comes to understand and admire her for the flawed -- yet enduring -- survivor she is.

The Roots of Racism and Abortion

Author : John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780738830889
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Roots of Racism and Abortion written by John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and real debate . . . The debate over abortion has bogged down. In general, people talk past each other, with little or no understanding of each other. This is not necessary, and The Roots of Racism and Abortion is an invitation to a new debate. The book is not neutral; it was written by a pro-life activist. But it shows what the debate is really all about, so that people can stop wasting time repeating slogans. Readers on both sides of the controversy will read the book with interest if they are interested in an honest exchange, rather than forcing their misunderstood views on the nation. Here's the problem with the old debate. Pro-lifers make a series of substantive arguments. They say that the life of an individual person has a beginning, that the beginning is not set arbitrarily, that the beginning is discernible, that the beginning is conception (or fertilization), and that from conception forward the new entity is a member of the human family. Pro-choicers make a procedural argument. They say that there is disagreement in society about when life begins, that we all agree that the mother is human, that she is the one who is most affected by the pregnancy, and that she is the one who should make decisions. The substantive arguments and the procedural arguments do not intersect. The two sides go on talking without ever quite squaring off against each. Frustrated because they don't understand their opponents, both sides make up arguments for the other side, and knock down straw men. Pro-lifers say that pro-choicers don't care about the truth, and are ready to lie and then kill. Pro-choicers say that pro-lifers are bullies, hung up on sex, determined to keep women subservient. These charges are nonsense, fantasies made up by people who cannot or will not listen to their opponents. One argument that pro-lifers often make, demolishing a straw man, is especially revealing. Pro-lifers often push an argument about the beginning of life. They say that it is obvious that life begins at conception or fertilization, and challenge their opponents to come up with an alternative. Pro-choicers don't have a clear answer, or in any case do not have any consensus about an answer. Pro-lifers think that they have scored a point, maybe a lot of points. But in fact, pro-choicers often brush this argument aside without any problem. What pro-choicers often hear, when they are confronted with a sweaty pro-lifer demanding to know when life begins, is an example of poor education. Though they rarely state it explicitly, most pro-choicers are quite sure that life is a continuum, that there is no sharp line anywhere between the sperm and egg, the zygote, the embryo, the fetus, the infant, the child, the adult. They can't explain that to the pro-lifer adequately without a course in biology. The difference between them is not a detail; they have different world views. An elementary course in biology would be enough to explain how continuity works, but a sentence is not enough. Pro-lifers, to understand the truth as pro-choicers see it, must re-arrange their whole view of life, and study evolution. So the pro-lifers think they have scored points, but the pro-choicers are walking away disdainfully. There is no communication at all; world views have bumped into each other, but not confronted each other. We do not have to abandon the debate over substantive questions and focus on procedural matters. Rather, we can explore a different substantive question. That is, pro-lifers always want to argue about when life begins, but that is the wrong question. The real debate is whether life has a significant beginning. Pro-lifers say that life begins at conception. The opposite substantive position is not that life begins at 12 weeks, or at via

Medical Apartheid

Author : Harriet A. Washington
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 076791547X
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Medical Apartheid written by Harriet A. Washington and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book. "[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, carefully documented book." —New York Times From the era of slavery to the present day, starting with the earliest encounters between Black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, Medical Apartheid 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. It reveals how Blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as unauthorized autopsies and dissections. Moving into the twentieth century, it shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of Blacks. Shocking new details about the government’s notorious Tuskegee experiment are revealed, as are similar, less-well-known medical atrocities conducted by the government, the armed forces, prisons, and private institutions. The product of years of prodigious research into medical journals and experimental reports long undisturbed, Medical Apartheid reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and makes possible, for the first time, an understanding of the roots of the African American health deficit. At last, it provides the fullest possible context for comprehending the behavioral fallout that has caused Black Americans to view researchers—and indeed the whole medical establishment—with such deep distrust.