our guest this month is medical ethicist and scientist harriet washington. the author of several books beginning in 2000 when living healthy withat hepatitis c. medical medical experimentation on black blackamericans from colonial tio the present deadly monopolies which we haven't talked about, corporate takeover of life itself and the consequences for your help and medical future came out in 2011. infectious madness, the surprising science of how we catch mental illness 2015. a terrible thing to waste, environmental racism and its assault on the american mind and tthe most recent book carte blanche the erosion of medical consent you can call in with a question or comment for the author. tubman 8200 in the east and central time zones, 748-8401 in the mountain and pacific time zones. if you want to send a text of this is only for text messages you can send to (202)748-8903. if you do send a message include your first name and your city. you can also participate on social media just remember@booktv for facebook, instagram, twitter. twitter. and/or e-mail bookt

peter: you write harriet washington that during your career as a medical researcher this money said, girl like you people don't get organs, they give organs. harriet: yes. the worst part is in large part he was right. peter: what is the back story to that. harriet: while my case, i was working on managing a prison control center and a teaching hospital in upstate new york and i loved the job it was wonderful we had been given some old fire campus for radiology and i was emptying it out in psalms mold patienter files that have been forgotten in the cabinet. having me, i read every one rated i will say that i was nosy, will say that i was being curious, read every single file but was appalled to discover the files of the african-americans who needed kidney transplants seemed to be treated differently than the white patient. from one social profile, the nonpatients in the negro very prominently written on every page on the social profile so famous no mistake aboutha the ft you knew you were reading a file the black person they mostly seemed that are created from these two files seem pret