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Introduction: The American janus of medicine and race

pt. 1. A troubling tradition

Southern discomfort: medical exploitation on the plantation

Profitable wonders: antebellum medical experimentation with slaves and freedmen

Circus Africanus: the popular display of Black bodies

The surgical theater: Black bodies in the antebellum clinic

The restless dead: anatomical dissection and display

Diagnosis: freedom: the Civil War, Emancipation, and Fin de Siècle medical research

"A notoriously syphilis-soaked race": what really happened at Tuskegee?

pt. 2. The usual subjects

The black stork: the eugenic control of African American reproduction

Nuclear winter: radiation experiments on African Americans

Caged subjects: research on Black prisoners

The children's crusade: research targets young African Americans

pt. 3. Race, technology, and medicine

Genetic perdition: the rise of molecular bias

Infection and inequity: illness as crime

The machine age: African American martyrs to surgical technology

Aberrant wars: American bioterrorism targets Blacks

Epilogue: Medical research with blacks today