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 Medical Apartheid By Harriet A. Washington

The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present.

Apparently they used to experiment on black women during slavery (using no anesthesia even tho they were available at the time) Suddenly Henrietta Lacks’s story isnt so uncommon. Oh did I mention most of what we know about modern Gynecology comes from their experimentation ON BLACK WOMEN>

ALLL Black women U MUST OWN THIS BOOK»»

Jesus Christ. This is fucking news to me (and I always used to think “where the fuck do they get these diagrams and how).

Welp.