Medical Apartheid Goes Viral: How Infection Catalyzes Bioethical Erosion - Harriet Washington [2021]

Harriet A. Washington, MA, ethicist and author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Experimentation from Colonial Times to the Present, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, will outline the historical roots of racial mistreatment in the U.S. medical research arena. She discusses contemporary challenges to ethical research and health care, from the elision of informed consent to the neoeugenic policies, through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This event was held as part of the "Racism, Medicine, and Bioethics" event series in honor of Black History Month, 2021. Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics and the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care partnered in organizing this series to examine the history of racism in medicine, its impact on Black individuals and the Black community, and to gather solutions for a healthier future from experts and thought leaders in history, health policy and law, social justice, and public health and medicine.

Learn more: https://bioethics.hms.harvard.....edu/events/black-his