Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent

by Harriet A. Washington

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1734420723
• ISBN13: 9781734420722
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Columbia Global Reports
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.4"