HARRIET A. WASHINGTON is a science writer, editor and ethicist. She is the author of A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and the Assault on the American Mind; Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We 'Catch' Mental Illness; and Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction). She has been a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, Visiting Fellow at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, a visiting scholar At DePaul University College of Law, the Miriam Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Institute and a senior resarch scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. She has also held fellowships at Stanford University, holds a MA in journalism from Columbia University and in 2016 was elected a Fellow at the New York Academy of Medicine. She lectures in bioethics at Columbia and is a newly elected member of the National Book Critics Circle.
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Carte Blanche is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say 'no' to risky medical research is eroding at a time when we are racing to produce a vaccine and treatments for Covid-19 This medical right that we have long taken for granted was fir... SEE MORE