On Sunday, February 7,2010 the Dunbar Association gladly presents Harriet Washington who will discuss her recent book ”Medical Apartheid”.

Harriet Washington

Biography

       Harriet Washington wrote Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. while a Research Fellow in Ethics at Harvard Medical School. She has worked as an editor at for USA Today and several  national magazines, and her award-winning medical writing has appeared in Harpers, Health, Emerge and Psychology Today, as well as such academic publications as the Harvard Public Health Review, the Harvard AIDS Review,  Nature, The Journal of the American Medical Association,  The American Journal of Public Health and the New England Journal of Medicine.  Her awards include the Congressional Black Caucus Beacon of Light Award, two awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and a Unity Award from Emerge.

Medical Apartheid won the 2007 National Book Critics’ Circle Award, a 2008 PEN award, the  Nonfiction Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was named one of the year’s Best Books by Publishers’ Weekly. It has been praised in periodicals from the Washington Post and Newsweek to the Times of London and it has been excerpted in New York Academy of Sciences’ Update. Experts have praised its scholarship, accuracy and insights. Ms. Washington has been a fellow in ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a

fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, a Knight Fellow at Stanford University and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University and a Visitnig Scholar at the DePaul University College of Law.

This event will be held here at the Dunbar Center, located at 1453 S. State Street, Syracuse, NY 13205, from 4:00-6:00 pm.

Links to articles by Harriet Washington:

Apology Shines Light on Racial Schism in Medicine-NewyorkTimes.com

Why Africa Fears Western Medicine-NewyorkTime.com