Medical Apartheid:
Above photo: Packed house at SOAS September 2014 for Medical Apartheid
400 years of European experiments on African Bodies A review of the scientific experiments and research performed on Black people to refine various drugs and medical treatments for use with white people
This presentation will draw on Harriet Washington’s book of the same name, various
documentation from World Wars 1/2, Aboriginal history, Vietnam, US Prisons and Porton Down. It covers:
*Radioactive People: North Africa and the Pacific
*Birth and Crowd Control: The South African Solution, Project Coast
*National Security Memorandum 200
*Vic Mackie and Congressional Inquiries
*The ‘War on Drugs’, Haiti and Jamaica
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