Columbia University Presents:
Medical consent and the Vulnerable
A conversation with Harriet A. Washington, journalist Jelani Cobb and neurologist Olajide Williams
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
6:00pm — 7:00pm ET
Online Event
Introduction by Lee Bollinger
Moderated by Nicholas Lemann
Join us online Wednesday, March 17, at 6 p.m. ET for a timely conversation on the ethics of medical care, featuring Harriet A. Washington, author of the new Columbia Global Reports book Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent, neurologist Olajide Williams, and journalist Jelani Cobb , moderated by Columbia Global Reports Director Nicholas Lemann.
In Carte Blanche, Harriet A. Washington, author of the award-winning history of medical racism Medical Apartheid, tells a shocking story about researchers departing from what should be an inviolable ethic of informed consent before enrollment in medical research. Using a wide range of examples, Washington shows how subjects—disproportionately Black—are given experimental substances they haven’t agreed to, often with harmful results. This panel will be a discussion of the problem and what to do about it.
Medical consent and the Vulnerable
A conversation with Harriet A. Washington, journalist Jelani Cobb and neurologist Olajide Williams
Introduction by Lee Bollinger Moderated by Nicholas Lemann Join us online Wednesday, March 17, at 6 p.m. ET for a timely conversation on the ethics of medical care, featuring Harriet A. Washington, author of the new Columbia Global Reports book Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent, neurologist Olajide Williams, and journalist Jelani Cobb ,… more
Online Event