We are thrilled to welcome back Harriet A. Washington, MA, medical writer, bioethicist, and editor, who will give the 2021 Thomas P. Duffy lecture on September 23rd at 5 pm, our first public event of this academic year:

Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent

This roundtable discussion will also feature Joanna Radin, PhD, and will be moderated by Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, MPH.

Harriet A. Washington is the award-winning author of several books, including Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, which details a myriad of ethically troubled research and medical abuses that continue to have far-reaching implications for African-American health and for contemporary medical and research practice. Her newest book, published earlier this year, is Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent.

Joanna Radin is associate professor in the section of the history of medicine/history of science, focuses on the history and anthropology of science, technology, and medicine. She is the author of Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold Blood.

Randi Hutter Epstein is PHM’s Writer-in-Residence. Her most recent book is Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything.

Register in advance for this event:
https://zoom.us/j/94143174253?pwd=aVVDSDZ2Z3M2UnlrSUFTRWZXZHRVdz09