Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent #606

Harriet Washington is an ethicist, editor, and writer. She has been a Writing Fellow in Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, was the 2015 to 2016 Miriam Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Institute, a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. She has held fellowships at Stanford University, and currently teaches bioethics at Columbia University. She is the author of several books including: "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present", "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind", "Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We ‘Catch’ Mental Illness" and the most recent "Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Informed Consent in Medical Research".