ETH Global Lecture Series: In Conversation with Harriet Washington
17 September 2020 - Online Event - Join medical ethicist Harriet Washington and Chris Luebkeman in an exciting discussion about ethics, politics and consent in medicine.
Join renowned medical ethicist Harriet Washington in conversation with Chris Luebkeman for a deep dive into the issues of the erosion of Informed Consent and why it matters, Medical Apartheid and its connection to Covid-19, why Big Pharma requires both our constant scrutiny and sometimes, our praise, and finally the impact of Protective Prejudice on our political landscapes.
Free public online event
Moderated by Chris Luebkeman, ETH Zurich
Thursday, 17 September 2020
16.00 - 17.00 Zurich (CEST)
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Harriet A. Washington is a science writer, editor and ethicist who is the author of the forthcoming Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Informed Consent in Medical Research (2021, Columbia Global Reports); and A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind. She has been the 2015-2016 Miriam Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Institute, a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, Visiting Fellow at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, a visiting scholar at DePaul University College of Law and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. She has also held fellowships at Stanford University, teaches bioethics at Columbia University where she delivered the 2020 commencement speech to Columbia’s School of Public Health graduates, won the 2020 Public Health Leadership Award and the Kenneth and Mamie Clark Award In 2016 she was elected a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.
Ms. Washington has written widely for popular and science publications and has been published in refereed books and journals. She has been Editor of the Harvard Journal of Minority Public Health, a guest Editor of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics and is a reviewer for the Journal of the American Association of Bioethics and the Humanities.
A film buff and lover of baroque music, Ms. Washington has also worked as manager of a poison-center, a classical-music announcer for public radio station WXXI-FM in Rochester, NY and she curates a series of feature films about medicine.