Harriet A. Washington

Harriet A. Washington is a science writer, editor and ethicist who has been a research fellow in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School, Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada’s Black Mountain Institute, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics. A previous book, Medical Apartheid, won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Oakland Award, and the American Library Association Black Caucus Nonfiction Award.