Please join the University of Michigan MLK Health Sciences Committee and Institute for Social Research as we host author and ethicist Harriet A. Washington on March 11, 2020. Washington's book "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind" will be the focal point of the discussion from 1:00-3:00 pm.
An author signing and reception will follow from 3:00-4:00 pm.
Harriet A. Washington has been the Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Institute, a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. She is the author of Deadly Monopolies, Infectious Madness, and Medical Apartheid, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Oakland Award, and the American Library Association Black Caucus Nonfiction Award. Does the dose make the poison?
Are US patterns of environmental toxicity driven by socioeconomics or race? Are hereditarian scientists correct in ascribing intelligence to racial genetics? How have our habitual modes of thought blinded us to the true nature of environmental toxicity, and what challenges face public health practitioners as they assess the roles of industry, science and government? If you have any questions or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.
If you have any questions or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.
This event counts toward 2 DEI Continuing Professional Education credits for School of Public Health faculty and staff.
University of Michigan MLK Health Sciences Committee, Institute for Social Research, ISR Reads, SRC Racism Lab, and PSC Population Dynamics and Health ProgrammingThe Cognitive Costs of Environmental Racism: Myth, Science and Myopia
Featuring author Harriet A. Washington
March 11, 2020
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Institute for Social Research (1430 Event Space | 426 Thompson Street)
Sponsored by: University of Michigan MLK Health Sciences Committee, Institute for Social Research, ISR Reads, SRC Racism Lab, and PSC Population Dynamics and Health Programming
Contact Information: Anna Massey (abeattie@umich.edu)
Please join the University of Michigan MLK Health Sciences Committee and Institute for Social Research as we host author and ethicist Harriet A. Washington on March 11, 2020. Washington's book "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind" will be the focal point of the discussion from 1:00-3:00 pm.
An author signing and reception will follow from 3:00-4:00 pm.
Harriet A. Washington has been the Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Institute, a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. She is the author of Deadly Monopolies, Infectious Madness, and Medical Apartheid, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Oakland Award, and the American Library Association Black Caucus Nonfiction Award. Does the dose make the poison?
Are US patterns of environmental toxicity driven by socioeconomics or race? Are hereditarian scientists correct in ascribing intelligence to racial genetics? How have our habitual modes of thought blinded us to the true nature of environmental toxicity, and what challenges face public health practitioners as they assess the roles of industry, science and government? If you have any questions or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.
If you have any questions or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.
This event counts toward 2 DEI Continuing Professional Education credits for School of Public Health faculty and staff.