A Distant Mirror: Seeing Medical History and Race through the Lens of U.S. Culture

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The Medical Humanities Initiative, in collaboration with the Georgetown Humanities Initiative and Howard University, hosted the lecture “A Distant Mirror: Seeing Medical History and Race through the Lens of U.S. Culture,” featuring Harriet Washington, National Book Critics’ Circle award-winning author of Medical Apartheid. Harriet Washington has been a fellow in medical ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University, and the recipient of a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. She also authored Infectious Madness, Deadly Monopolies.

Harriet Washington
Harriet Washington
Photo from the lecture “A Distant Mirror: Seeing Medical History and Race Through the Lens of U.S. Culture”
Photo from the lecture “A Distant Mirror: Seeing Medical History and Race Through the Lens of U.S. Culture”
Photo from the lecture “A Distant Mirror: Seeing Medical History and Race Through the Lens of U.S. Culture”
Photo from the lecture “A Distant Mirror: Seeing Medical History and Race Through the Lens of U.S. Culture”