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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

342) Harriet Washington: Confronting medical apartheid and the medical-industrial complex

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

kaméa chayne

Nature, Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Science

4.9661 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we revisit our past conversation with Harriet Washington, an award-winning medical writer and editor and the author of the best-selling book Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. She's also the author of A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and its Assault on the American Mind.

In her work, Harriet focuses mainly on bioethics, the history of medicine, African-American health issues, and the intersection of medicine, ethics, and culture.

The song featured in this episode is Debt by Luna Bec.

Green Dreamer is a community-supported podcast and multimedia journal exploring our paths to collective healing, ecological regeneration, and true abundance and wellness for all. Find our show notes, transcripts, and newsletter at GreenDreamer.com.

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For now, on to today's episode, which is a replay of our conversation from July of 2020 with

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Harriet Washington.

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Why do we have 20 erectile dysfunction drugs and nothing new and efficient for malaria?

1:42.5

It's because which one makes more money.

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You know, the people who suffer malaria don't have the money that Americans have

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to pay in case of cancer drugs almost a million dollars a year for treatment of cancer.

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