Before they die young in droves from eminently preventable diseases, African Americans also suffer far more devastating but equally preventable disease complications, such as blindness, confinement to wheelchairs, and limb loss. Blacks have dramatically higher rates of nearly every cancer, of AIDS, of heart disease, of diabetes, of liver disease, of infectious diseases, and they even suffer from higher rates of accidental death, homicide, and mental illness. One and half times as many African American adults as white adults die every year. Medical scholar Harriet Washington joins us to talk about her new book, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the. Twice as many African American babies as babies of other ethnic groups die before their first birthday. Washington Fellow DePaul University->College of Law Donald Wilson Director University of Maryland, Baltimore->Minority Health Hosting Organization Enoch Pratt Free Library Series. Harold Freedman observed that the health status of Harlem men resembles that of Bangladeshis more closely than that of their Manhattan neighbors, he did not exaggerate. “At the same time, medical experts of every persuasion agree that African Americans share the most deplorable health profile in the nation by far, one that resembles that of Third World countries.
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