Harriet A. Washington
Harriet Washington | |
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Washington at the 2015 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | October 5, 1951 Fort Dix, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Rochester (B.A.) Columbia University (M.A.) |
| Notable works | Medical Apartheid |
| Spouse |
Ron DeBose
(m. 1992; died 2013) |
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.