The dark history of medical experimentation on black Americans from Colonial times to the present [video 81min]

Journalist and medical ethicist Harriet Washington details medical research on African Americans from Colonial times to the 20th century. Describing the Tuskegee Syphilis Study that began in 1932 and was conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service, she contends that this is just one of several experiments that shaped the way in which African Americans relate to today's medical industry. Washington is a Visiting Scholar at DePaul University School of Law and has been awarded the Congressional Black Caucus Beacon of Light Award and investigative journalism awards from the National Association of Black Journalists. She is a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.