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Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent
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“Urgent, alarming, riveting, and essential.” —Ibram X. Kendi
Carte Blanche is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say “no” to risky medical research is being violated. Patients' right to give or withhold consent is supposed to be protected by law, but for decades medical research has been conducted on trauma victims—who are disproportionately people of color—without their consent or even their knowledge.
Harriet A. Washington, the author of Medical Apartheid, is again expos...
Carte Blanche is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say “no” to risky medical research is being violated. Patients' right to give or withhold consent is supposed to be protected by law, but for decades medical research has been conducted on trauma victims—who are disproportionately people of color—without their consent or even their knowledge.
Harriet A. Washington, the author of Medical Apartheid, is again expos...