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Why, Even Today, Many Blacks Are Wary About American Medicine

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present

By Harriet A. Washington

(Doubleday, $27.95)

When I speak to audiences about mental illness and the Black community, distrust of the healthcare system invariably comes up. It's the second-most cited reason I hear for not getting treatment for mental health problems, with only the stigma attached to mental illness being more frequent. And just as invariably, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study ...

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