Harriet A. Washington

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

National Book Critics Circle for General Non-fiction 2007

by Harriet A. Washington

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner (Nonfiction)

PEN/Oakland Award Winner

BCALA Nonfiction Award Winner

Gustavus Meyers Award Winner

From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black...

Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future.

by Harriet A. Washington

From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours.

Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think...

Living Healthy with Hepatitis C: Natural and Conventional Approaches to Recover Your Quality of Life

by Harriet A. Washington & Stephen J. Dr Bock

As many as four million Americans suffer from the hepatitis C virus (HCV), but most don't even know they're infected. Here at last is the unprecedented book that smashes the myths about the disease as it offers...