Luke’s Reviews > Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present > Status Update

Requiring evidence that the drug being administered meets or exceeds the standard of medical care is de rigueur for Western trials, but university IRBs now employ an ethical sleight of hand to stipulate that the tested drug must meet or exceed the standard of care in the country where the study is being evaluated. In impoverished, medically underserved sub-Saharan African countries, that standard of care...

South Africa's systematic murders via biological agents are important to this book because so many of the scientists involved in crafting South Africa's racist bioterror were Americans. In fact, the science of the apartheid could not have existed without the avid participation and guidance of a handful of American scientific renegades.

Silence governs those risk factors that cannot be laid to a blame-the-victim paradigm that emphasizes patients' high-risk behaviors.

Medicaid gives more money to hospitals which forcibly incarcerate "the sick" against their will than those which utilize voluntary routine doctor visits. Imagine that.

During World War II, prisoners had been commonly used as research subjects, and after the war, the United States was the only nation in the world continuing to legally use prisoners in clinical trials.

We now know, where we could only surmise before, that we have contributed to their ailments and shortened their lives.

Most of the bodies used by New York City's Columbia University and New York University were from the Negros Burying Ground. In 1712 and again in 1741, New York slave rebellions were actuated in part by the refusal of slave owners to allow slaves to bury their dead.

Ever wonder whom the Nazis were inspired by?