In medical apartheid The dark history of medical experimentation on black Americans from colonial times to the present Washington presents an argument supporting the scientific racism on the part of doctors and leads to "behavioral fallout that causes researcher and African Americans to look at each other with jaundiced eyes" (Washington 2006) and that "the culture of American medicine has reflected the broader culture" (Washington 2006). Doctors resorted to experimenting on people of color and used their findings to justify and perpetuate the inequalities that existed during slavery. The framework used to present this idea is scientific racism. Scientific racism is the use of scientific techniques and hypotheses to support the belief in racism and racial inferiority or superiority. Doctors explain that blacks were “submissive knees” (Washington 2006) and that they were immune to the harsh climatic conditions of the American South. Doctors use whatever reasons they want to justify the Negro's position. They even went far enough to include biblical depictions in their explanations. Even today, there is still a bias among doctors when it comes to treating and diagnosing black people. The things that kill black people the most are preventable and curable, according to Washington. “that black people do not die from an exotic, incurable, and poorly understood disease, nor from a genetic disease that only targets them, but rather from common diseases that are more often prevented and treated among white people than among black people” ( Washington 2006). The experiment that most demonstrates how true this statement is is the Tuskegee syphilis experiment sponsored by the United States government. In this famous experiment, black people were infected with the bacteria that causes syphilis. This is... middle of paper ...... very strong racism. From this plethora of evidence, I can see how iatrophobia is possible among black people. community. The author's view is that scientific racism has caused iatrophobia among black people. It refers to the fact that medical communities are also affected by the structure of society as a whole, so these experiences are not considered abhorrent or inhumane. This information is all revealed in the introduction. The author tells this from a moral point of view. Social construction determines whether a particular event is considered good or bad. At the time, experiments on people were considered acceptable, but if carried out, they would be extremely taboo. The government even participated in human experiments to show how good things were back then. In conclusion, I am convinced that these prejudices within the scientific community are what make black people still fear doctors today...