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About Harriet A. Washington

Harriet A. Washington is an American writer and medical ethicist. She is the author of the book Medical Apartheid, which won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. She has also written books on environmental racism and the erosion of informed consent in medicine.

Washington 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.

Harriet A. Washington writes about History, Ethics, African Americans, Moral and ethical aspects, Medical care, and Human experimentation in medicine. Their best-known work is Medical apartheid.

On FindMyTBR we track 5 books by Harriet A. Washington, 3 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including A Terrible Thing to Waste, Infectious Madness, and Medical Apartheid : The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.