About the Author
Harriet A. Washington has been a fellow in ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University, and a lecturer in bioethics at Columbia University whence she earned a master in journalism. She has been an editor at USA Today and several other national publications, a Knight Fellow at Stanford University, and has written for such academic forums as the Harvard Public Health Review, Nature, JAMA, The Lancet, and The New England Journal of Medicine and is pursuing a master’s degree in the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Washington is the recipient of several prestigious awards for her work and lives in New York City.
