KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Acclaimed author Harriet A. Washington will speak about the “Unethical Treatment of Marginalized Populations in the Name of Medicine” on Tuesday, Oct. 11, as part of the Western ...

The world’s most influential medical journal has finally confronted its failure to address an unfolding genocide—over 80 years after the fact. Last month, the historians Joelle Abi-Rached and Allan ...

In the Boston area, too, Harvard and other universities grab land and put it to work for private profit, war, and perpetuation of medical apartheid. These land grabs increase property values and rents ...

Medical ethicist and journalist Washington, winner of the 2008 NBCC Award for Nonfiction for Medical Apartheid, spotlights the choices made within Big Pharma, and finds that they all point to one ...

The first comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between Africans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience ...

AMES, Iowa -- Twenty years ago, then-President Bill Clinton issued a formal apology for the U.S. Public Health Service's 40-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study. During the study, 600 poor African-American ...

With growing demands for a more equitable health system and changes to compliance requirements by federal agencies and accrediting bodies, attorneys must familiarize themselves with the principles of ...

At the intersection of Blackness and disability is a population of especially vulnerable people, as racism and ableism mutually reinforce each other. Disability is more prevalent among Black people ...

Judging people by the color of their skin, not the content of their character, has long been unpopular in the United States, which is why an overwhelming majority of people, 68%, agreed with the ...

Leftism destroys everything … even the Hippocratic oath. Victoria is a fine example of what happens when the ideological ...

As Stanford faculty, staff, students, alumni, patients and allies who work in or care about the Stanford Medicine community, we take issue with the misleading and divisive Stanford Daily opinion piece ...

This groundbreaking study documents that the infamous Tuskegee experiments, in which black syphilitic men were studied but not treated, was simply the most publicized in a long, and continuing, ...