Medical Apartheid: The History of Experimentation on Black Americans

Harriet Washington is a medical ethicist and author of the best-selling book [url=https://www.amazon.com/Medical-Apartheid-Experimentation-Americans-Colonial/dp/076791547X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495224317&sr=1-1&keywords=medical+apartheid]Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present[/url]. She has been a fellow in ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. Her latest book, [url=https://www.amazon.com/Infectious-Madness-Surprising-Science-Illness/dp/0316277819/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495224397&sr=1-1&keywords=infectious+madness]Infectious Madness[/url], looks at the connection between germs and mental illness. An award-winning medical writer and editor, Washington has worked for USA Today, been a Knight Fellow at Stanford University, and written for such academic forums as The New England Journal of Medicine. National Affairs Series

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