Harriet Washington Reads from the Book.
The medical exploitation of African Americans over centuries has caused many black patients to mistrust the medical industry. Author Harriet Washington discusses the history and impact of medical abuse with Farai Chideya.
Washington is a bioethicist and author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present.
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