As if you don't have enough reading already...

I just cracked a new book that might be of interest to you in light of our conversations about race and science over the past couple of weeks. Harriet Washington's _Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present_. The book is really readable and interesting. It surveys plantation medicine in the 18th and 19th century and also includes a chapter on Tuskegee called: "'A Notoriously Syphilis-Soaked Race': What Really Happened at Tuskegee?" I thought it might be especially interesting for those of you who were curious to get at questions like: what kind of information was being sought in reality? what did they hope to gain? And so on...
Happy reading.
Britt