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Infectious Madness

The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness

by Harriet A. Washington ...

A groundbreaking look at the connection between germs and mental illness, and how we can protect ourselves.Is it possible to catch autism or OCD the same way we catch the flu? Can a child's contact with cat litter lead to schizophrenia? In her eye-opening new book, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Harriet Washington reveals that we can in fact "catch" mental illness. In Infectious ... Read more

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A groundbreaking look at the connection between germs and mental illness, and how we can protect ourselves.Is it possible to catch autism or OCD the same way we catch the flu? Can a child's contact with cat litter lead to schizophrenia? In her eye-opening new book, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Harriet Washington reveals that we can in fact "catch" mental illness. In Infectious
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Medical Apartheid

The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

by Harriet A. Washington ...

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book."[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, ... Read more

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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book."[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting,
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A Terrible Thing to Waste

Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind

by Harriet A. Washington ...

A "powerful and indispensable" look at the devastating consequences of environmental racism (Gerald Markowitz) -- and what we can do to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities.Did you know...Middle-class African American households with incomes between $50,000 and $60,000 live in neighborhoods that are more polluted than those of very poor white households with incomes below $10,000 ... Read more

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A "powerful and indispensable" look at the devastating consequences of environmental racism (Gerald Markowitz) -- and what we can do to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities.Did you know...Middle-class African American households with incomes between $50,000 and $60,000 live in neighborhoods that are more polluted than those of very poor white households with incomes below $10,000
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Medical Apartheid

The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

by Harriet A. Washington ...

Narrated by Ron Butler ...

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19 hours 2 min

Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today ... Read more

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Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today
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Renaissance Men

Agents of Medical and Cultural Modernity

by Harriet A. Washington ...

The gripping, untold stories of three unsung Black physicians and their critical contributions to the field of medicine and American culture, from the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Medical Apartheid**.**Between 1847 and 1952, three New York City doctors transformed medicine, catalyzed racial equity, elevated American culture, then were all but lost to history—until now.James ... Read more

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The gripping, untold stories of three unsung Black physicians and their critical contributions to the field of medicine and American culture, from the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Medical Apartheid**.**Between 1847 and 1952, three New York City doctors transformed medicine, catalyzed racial equity, elevated American culture, then were all but lost to history—until now.James
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African American history

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker T. Washington ...

Narrated by Mark Bowen, Rick Walz, Jowanna Lewis ...

Unabridged

18 hours 31 min

African American history is the part of American history that looks at the history of African Americans or Black Americans.Of the 10.7 million Africans who were brought to the Americas until the 1860s, 450 thousand were shipped to what is now the United States.Most African Americans are descended from Africans who were brought directly from Africa to America and became slaves. The future slaves ... Read more

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African American history is the part of American history that looks at the history of African Americans or Black Americans.Of the 10.7 million Africans who were brought to the Americas until the 1860s, 450 thousand were shipped to what is now the United States.Most African Americans are descended from Africans who were brought directly from Africa to America and became slaves. The future slaves
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Deadly Monopolies

The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future.

by Harriet A. Washington ...

From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours.Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes controlling the most basic processes of human life, and more are pending. If you undergo surgery in many ... Read more

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From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours.Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes controlling the most basic processes of human life, and more are pending. If you undergo surgery in many
... Read more
Born in Chains - Collected Slave Narratives

First-Person Testimonies of Enslavement, Escape, Resistance, and the Fight for Freedom

by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, William Grimes, Solomon Northup, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Zamba Zembola, Boyrereau Brinch, Olaudah Equiano, Solomon Bayley, Henry Watson, John Brown, William Craft, Ellen Craft, J. W. Loguen, John Andrew Jackson, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Elizabeth Keckley, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Austin Steward, Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, L. S. Thompson, James W. C. Pennington, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, Leonard Black, Henry Box Brown, Phillis Wheatley, James L. Smith, Joseph Mountain, Peter Still, Annie L. Burton, Israel Campbell, Lewis Clarke, Francis Fedric, William Still, Moses Roper, Joseph Vance Lewis, Rev. Greensbury Washington Offley, John Thompson, Venture Smith, Isaac D. Williams, William Walker, Octavia Albert ...

Born in Chains—Collected Slave Narratives assembles a capacious archive of bondage, flight, resistance, emancipation, and memory. Spanning autobiography, dictated testimony, spiritual reflection, political argument, and documentary recollection, the volume reveals the formal range of slave narrative traditions across the Atlantic world. Accounts of escape, family separation, literacy, labor, ... Read more

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Born in Chains—Collected Slave Narratives assembles a capacious archive of bondage, flight, resistance, emancipation, and memory. Spanning autobiography, dictated testimony, spiritual reflection, political argument, and documentary recollection, the volume reveals the formal range of slave narrative traditions across the Atlantic world. Accounts of escape, family separation, literacy, labor,
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A Life in Chains

Enriched edition. The Juneteenth Edition: Novels, Memoirs, Interviews, Testimonies, Studies, Official Records on Slavery and Abolitionism

by Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lydia Maria Child, James Weldon Johnson, William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Harriet E. Wilson, Charles W. Chesnutt, Harriet Jacobs, Gideon Ashbourne2 ...

A Life in Chains brings together a compelling collection of narratives, essays, and stories that converge on the harrowing realities of slavery and the pursuit of freedom in 19th-century America. This anthology navigates a spectrum of literary styles, from reflective memoirs to incisive social commentaries, providing a multifaceted panorama of the African American experience under the shadow of ... Read more

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A Life in Chains brings together a compelling collection of narratives, essays, and stories that converge on the harrowing realities of slavery and the pursuit of freedom in 19th-century America. This anthology navigates a spectrum of literary styles, from reflective memoirs to incisive social commentaries, providing a multifaceted panorama of the African American experience under the shadow of
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Black History Collection

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk

by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois ...

Narrated by Mark Bowen, Rick Walz, Jowanna Lewis ...

Unabridged

27 hours 9 min

America's black intellectuals - writers, historians, educators, and community activists - have made major contributions to the struggle for equality and human rights throughout American public life.The key streams of thought that gave rise to the intellectual traditions associated with African Americans emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries. These same traditions continue to develop and influence ... Read more

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America's black intellectuals - writers, historians, educators, and community activists - have made major contributions to the struggle for equality and human rights throughout American public life.The key streams of thought that gave rise to the intellectual traditions associated with African Americans emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries. These same traditions continue to develop and influence
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Carte Blanche

The Erosion of Medical Consent

by Harriet A. Washington ...

“Urgent, alarming, riveting, and essential.” —Ibram X. KendiCarte Blanche is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say “no” to risky medical research is being violated. Patients' right to give or withhold consent is supposed to be protected by law, but for decades medical research has been conducted on trauma victims—who are disproportionately people of color—without their consent or ... Read more

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“Urgent, alarming, riveting, and essential.” —Ibram X. KendiCarte Blanche is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say “no” to risky medical research is being violated. Patients' right to give or withhold consent is supposed to be protected by law, but for decades medical research has been conducted on trauma victims—who are disproportionately people of color—without their consent or
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Renaissance Men

Agents of Medical and Cultural Modernity

by Harriet A. Washington ...

Narrated by Curtis Michael Holland ...

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5 hours 26 min

The gripping, untold stories of three unsung Black physicians and their critical contributions to the field of medicine and American culture, from the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Medical Apartheid**.**Between 1847 and 1952, three New York City doctors transformed medicine, catalyzed racial equity, elevated American culture, then were all but lost to history—until now.James ... Read more

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The gripping, untold stories of three unsung Black physicians and their critical contributions to the field of medicine and American culture, from the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Medical Apartheid**.**Between 1847 and 1952, three New York City doctors transformed medicine, catalyzed racial equity, elevated American culture, then were all but lost to history—until now.James
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