Harriet Washington

12 Podcast Episodes

NBN Classic: Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind" (Little, Brown Spark, 2019)

NBN Classic: Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind" (Little, Brown Spark, 2019)

This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time.E... Read more

24 Sep 2022

48mins

Racism & Health In US Medicine, A Conversation with Harriet Washington

Racism & Health In US Medicine, A Conversation with Harriet Washington

Join Health Affairs Insider.In a bonus episode of A Health Podyssey, Harriet Washington discusses the history of racism ... Read more

28 Feb 2022

27mins

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342) Harriet Washington: Confronting medical apartheid and the medical-industrial complex

342) Harriet Washington: Confronting medical apartheid and the medical-industrial complex

In this episode, we revisit our past conversation with Harriet Washington, an award-winning medical writer and editor an... Read more

1 Feb 2022

55mins

S1E68 / Medical Racism Past and Present / Vanessa Northington Gamble, Harriet Washington, Rueben Warren

S1E68 / Medical Racism Past and Present / Vanessa Northington Gamble, Harriet Washington, Rueben Warren

"We have to have a conversation where we take people's fears seriously and try to figure out what is going on there." -V... Read more

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Author Harriet Washington on the Illusion of Medical Consent

Author Harriet Washington on the Illusion of Medical Consent

Harriet Washington is an award-winning author and bioethicist, and in her new book (out now), “Carte Blanche: The Erosio... Read more

24 Feb 2021

29mins

How Racism Plays a Role in Health Inequities with Harriet Washington

How Racism Plays a Role in Health Inequities with Harriet Washington

As a medical ethicist, Harriet Washington has a unique and courageous voice and deconstructs the politics around medical... Read more

1 Aug 2020

54mins

Ep. 284: Why Buying Isn’t Doing, a Deep Dive into Ways to Display Your Favorite Quotations, and a Spotlight on Harriet Washington

Ep. 284: Why Buying Isn’t Doing, a Deep Dive into Ways to Display Your Favorite Quotations, and a Spotlight on Harriet Washington

We talk about why we shouldn’t confuse buying with doing, reveal a happiness hack for staying in touch with grandparents... Read more

29 Jul 2020

30mins

Worth a Listen Ft Harriet Washington and Robert A. Powell

Worth a Listen Ft Harriet Washington and Robert A. Powell

You can help Harriet with her Safeway house! Volunteers needed to fix the house, or donate an ac unit or a lawnmower or ... Read more

23 Jul 2020

43mins

How We Are Poisoning Our Children with Harriet Washington

How We Are Poisoning Our Children with Harriet Washington

Racism is still rampant in our country, and it might exist in places you didn’t expect it. For example, Black and Brown ... Read more

4 Mar 2020

1hr 16mins

Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind" (Little, Brown Spark, 2019)

Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind" (Little, Brown Spark, 2019)

Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores. It is responsible for the... Read more

9 Sep 2019

48mins

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