{"id":2034,"date":"2020-02-13T00:06:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T00:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwmedptn\/?page_id=2034"},"modified":"2020-02-13T00:07:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T00:07:35","slug":"contemporary-african-american-authors-contributing-to-healthcare-equity-advancement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwmedptn\/strategies-programs\/healthcare-equity\/hcetoolkit\/healthcare-equity-related-commemorations\/contemporary-african-american-authors-contributing-to-healthcare-equity-advancement\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month 2020: Contemporary African American Authors Contributing to Healthcare Equity Advancement"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Black History Month 2020, UW Medicine Healthcare Equity highlights contemporary African American authors whose work adds tremendous value in how we purposefully operationalize the UW Medicine Healthcare Equity Blueprint<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 The authors\u2019 insight contextualizes the realities on which our pursuit of healthcare equity rests. Namely, the authors below elucidate poorly understood and oftentimes intentionally bewildering history of racialized medicine including the evolution thereof to present day healthcare services delivery.<\/p>\n

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Harriet Washington, PhD<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Photo Credit: Yale University<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Author of Medical Apartheid<\/em><\/a> and at least six other books<\/a>, Dr. Harriet Washington is a science writer, editor and ethicist.\u00a0 Dr. Washington has served as research fellow in Medical Ethics for Harvard Medical School, visiting Fellow at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and visiting scholar at DePaul University College of Law.\u00a0 At Tuskegee University, Dr. Washington was a senior research scholar at the historically black university\u2019s National Center for Bioethics. She has also held fellowships at Stanford University, holds a degree in English from the University of Rochester, an MA in journalism from Columbia University and in 2016 was elected a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. She teaches a\u00a0bioethics course at Columbia University and presents her work in the history of medicine to universities throughout the United States and Europe.<\/p>\n

Dr. Washington\u2019s book\u00a0Medical Apartheid<\/em>, a \u2013 UW Medicine Healthcare Equity soon to be featured book \u2013 won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the 2007 PEN Oakland Award, and the 2007 American Library Association Black Caucus Nonfiction Award.<\/p>\n

Watch the Vox<\/a> clip below where Dr. Washington shares her knowledge regarding racialized medicine. To read the entire story \u2013 Nothing Protects Black Women From Dying in Pregnancy and Childbirth<\/em> \u2013 associated with the video below, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n