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Harriet Washington, bioethics journalist and author, will speak at the University of Richmond on the "racial health divide"

October 7, 2008

Bioethics journalist and author Harriet Washington will speak about the "racial health divide" facing the country on Oct. 30 at the University of Richmond.

The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Brown-Alley Room of Weinstein Hall at 7 p.m. A book signing will follow the lecture.

Her lecture is sponsored by Women Involved in Living and Learning (WILL), Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), and Richmond Quest. Each year the WILL program sponsors a speaker series to discuss gender and diversity-related issues.

Washington's lecture, titled "American Apartheid: Race, History and Medical Logic," will explore the history and possible remedies of health adversities suffered by American blacks.

Washington, a Harvard Medical School fellow in ethics, has written several books on bioethics, including, "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present." She also has written for the New England Journal of Medicine and the Harvard Public Medical Review.

For more information, call (804) 289-8578.