A Terrible Thing to Waste

"Washington returned this summer with her third book, A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and its Assault on the American Mind (Little, Brown and Company), an unflinching look at environmental racism in America and its odious, devastating generational effects on the black community and communities of color, where the foci of toxicity is placed. Some of what Washington, a research fellow in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School, found may surprise you—or not—but...

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Harriet A. Washington's A Terrible Thing to Waste Injects a Dose of Hard Truth Into the Conversation About Black Lives

Harriet Washington’s 2007 tome, Medical Apartheid, not only outlined the pervasive use of medical experimentation on black Americans throughout history but circumscribed blacks’ credible distrust of the medical establishment. In fact, a large part of why J. Marion Sims’ statue was removed from...