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The dark history of medical experimentation on black americans from colonial times to the present harriet a. Invaluable to instructors promoting the history of medicine in preprofessional training, and stressing major themes in the history of medicine, this third edition continues to stimulate further exploration of the events, methodologies, and theories that have shaped medical practices in decades past and continue to do so today. Winner of the 1983 pulitzer prize and the bancroft prize in american history, this is a landmark history of how the entire american health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs. Popular books about the history of medicine 20th century microbe hunters. It has also been widely used in history courses and by general readers.
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