Public Lectures

Harriet Washington, "Medical Apartheid."
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Harriet A. 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. As a journalist and editor, she has worked for USA Today and several other publications, been a Knight Fellow at Stanford University and has written for such academic forums as the Harvard Public Health Review and The New England Journal of Medicine. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards for her work. Washington lives in New York City.

This lecture is part of "From Eugenics to Deadly Medicine and Back," a series in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race" at the Science Museum of Minnesota, Feb 27 through May 4, 2008.