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Online Talk with Harriet Washington (Medical Apartheid) About Her New Book

Black History Month Online Book Release Talk with:

Harriet A. Washington
Acclaimed author of “Medical Apartheid” will be debuting her new book “Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent”

Washington is again exposing a large-scale violation of patient, civil, and human rights. “Carte Blanche” is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say “no” to risky medical research is being violated. Patients’ right to give or withhold consent is supposed to be protected by law, but for decades medical research has been conducted on trauma victims―who are disproportionately people of color―without their consent or even their knowledge.
**Link here to watch on Youtube at 5pm on day of event:
“Urgent, alarming, riveting, and essential, Carte Blanche reveals that Americans, including African Americans, are still being medically experimented upon without their consent―yet again in research sanctioned by law. Harriet Washington’s powerful indictment of ongoing medical coercion unveils a gross violation of our human rights. It is vital reading at a moment when change is so necessary.”
―Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist and Stamped From the Beginning

Harriet Washington was interviewed by Michele Martin on NPR, December 20, 2020 on “Race and The Roots of Vaccine Skepticism.” Martin asked about efforts being made to encourage people to take COVID-19 vaccines, about how Dr. Anthony Fauci has appealed to civil rights groups and spoken publicly about how a Black scientist helped develop the vaccine. Are these good steps?

Harriet answered in part:
“I think this is a good thing to do because I think this vaccine looks as if it’s going to be safe, efficacious — just what we need. So anything that’s done in terms of encouraging African Americans to benefit from it, too. I think this is a good step. However… if we don’t make real, large steps toward addressing the inequities that cultivate distrust, then we’re going to have to do this every time we have a new health initiative. That’s a complete waste.”
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Harriet A. Washington is the author of Medical Apartheid, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Washington has been a research fellow in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at the Tuskegee Institute. She lectures in bioethics at Columbia University. Her books also include A Terrible Thing to Waste and Infectious Madness.
The February 28 event will be one of Harriet’s first talks about Carte Blanche which will be released on February 23. Revolution Books will have copies available at the bookstore and online in advance of her program.Co-sponsored by Revolution Books – Berkeley. The event takes place at 2:00PM PST on the west coast.










When: Sun., Feb. 28, 2021 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Where: Revolution Books
437 Malcolm X Blvd./Lenox Ave. @132nd St
212-691-3345
Price: Free
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Black History Month Online Book Release Talk with:

Harriet A. Washington
Acclaimed author of “Medical Apartheid” will be debuting her new book “Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent”

Washington is again exposing a large-scale violation of patient, civil, and human rights. “Carte Blanche” is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say “no” to risky medical research is being violated. Patients’ right to give or withhold consent is supposed to be protected by law, but for decades medical research has been conducted on trauma victims―who are disproportionately people of color―without their consent or even their knowledge.
**Link here to watch on Youtube at 5pm on day of event:
“Urgent, alarming, riveting, and essential, Carte Blanche reveals that Americans, including African Americans, are still being medically experimented upon without their consent―yet again in research sanctioned by law. Harriet Washington’s powerful indictment of ongoing medical coercion unveils a gross violation of our human rights. It is vital reading at a moment when change is so necessary.”
―Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist and Stamped From the Beginning

Harriet Washington was interviewed by Michele Martin on NPR, December 20, 2020 on “Race and The Roots of Vaccine Skepticism.” Martin asked about efforts being made to encourage people to take COVID-19 vaccines, about how Dr. Anthony Fauci has appealed to civil rights groups and spoken publicly about how a Black scientist helped develop the vaccine. Are these good steps?

Harriet answered in part:
“I think this is a good thing to do because I think this vaccine looks as if it’s going to be safe, efficacious — just what we need. So anything that’s done in terms of encouraging African Americans to benefit from it, too. I think this is a good step. However… if we don’t make real, large steps toward addressing the inequities that cultivate distrust, then we’re going to have to do this every time we have a new health initiative. That’s a complete waste.”
* * *
Harriet A. Washington is the author of Medical Apartheid, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Washington has been a research fellow in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at the Tuskegee Institute. She lectures in bioethics at Columbia University. Her books also include A Terrible Thing to Waste and Infectious Madness.
The February 28 event will be one of Harriet’s first talks about Carte Blanche which will be released on February 23. Revolution Books will have copies available at the bookstore and online in advance of her program.Co-sponsored by Revolution Books – Berkeley. The event takes place at 2:00PM PST on the west coast.
Buy tickets/get more info now