[2] She has also written books on environmental racism and the erosion of informed consent in medicine.

Washington has been a fellow in ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University.

[4] She subsequently worked as a Page One editor at USA Today newspaper, before winning a fellowship from the Harvard School of Public Health.

[13] Harriet reviews mostly on those subjects that she writes upon - human experimentation, especially deceptive ones, without taking informed consent.

Her review of one of the most talked about books on this subject, namely The Plutonium Files was published in The New England Journal of Medicine.