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
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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
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27mins
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
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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
1 Apr 2021
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24mins
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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48mins