Medical Apartheid

National Book · 2007 · Winner

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction	2007	Winner

About the Author

Harriet A. WashingtonAmerican

Harriet A. Washington (born 1951) is an American author and medical ethicist best known for her book Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (2007), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, as well as A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind (2019) and Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Informed Consent in Medical Research (2021). BlackPast.org. Read more →