Upcoming event of interest: Harriet Washington, Monday 9/27 at Amherst College

Upcoming event of interest: Harriet Washington, Monday 9/27 at Amherst College

by Felicity Aulino -
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Hi, all!


Quick announcement here about an upcoming talk sponsored by the Five College Program in Culture, Health, and Science. On Monday, September 27th from 5.30-6.30pm science writer and medical ethicist Harriet Washington will be talking on "A shot in the dark: vaccines and medical untrustworthiness."

The talk will happen live and outside in the music department tent in front of Cohan Dormitory at Amherst College.

This may be a great way to kick off our discussion of violence and carceral logics in psychiatry, and medicine more generally.

For those who do not know Washington and her work, she writes extensively on the collisions of medical science with racism, antiblackness, and struggle. Her award-winning books include Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Experimentation from Colonial Times to the Present, and A Terrible Thing To Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind. Washington has been appointed as a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University,  Harvard's School of Public Health, and elsewhere.

Hope to see you there!

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