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Author Jones, James H. (James Howard), 1943- author.
Title Bad blood : the Tuskegee syphilis experiment / James H. Jones.
Imprint New York : Free Press, [1993]
Copyright Date ©1993
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 Main Library  R853.H8J7    4 WEEK  IN LIBRARY 10-04-24
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Edition New and expanded edition.
Descript xv, 297 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) and portraits (black and white) ; 24 cm
Content type text
Media type unmediated
Carrier type volume
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface to the new and expanded edition -- Acknowledgments -- A note on spelling and punctuation -- 1. "A moral astigmatism" -- 2. "A notoriously syphilis-soaked race" -- 3. "Disease germs are the most democratic creatures in the world" -- 4. "Holding high Wasserman in the marketplace" -- 5. "The Dr. ain't taking sticks" -- 6. "Buying ear muffs for the Hottentots" -- 7. "It will either cover us with mud or glory" -- 8. "Last chance for special free treatment" -- 9. "Bringing them to autopsy" -- 10. "The joy of my life" -- 11. "Even at risk of shortening life" -- 12. "Nothing learned will prevent, find, or cure a single case" -- 13. "I ain't never understood the study" -- 14. "AIDS : Is it genocide?" -- Notes -- A note on sources -- Indexes -- About the author.
Summary The modern classic of race and medicine updated with an additional chapter on the Tuskegee experiment's legacy in the age of AIDS.
Subject Tuskegee Institute.
Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
Human experimentation in medicine -- Alabama -- Macon County -- History.
Syphilis -- Research -- Alabama -- Macon County -- History.
Syphilis -- Alabama -- Macon County -- History.
African American men -- Diseases -- Alabama -- Macon County -- History.
AIDS (Disease) -- United States.
ISBN 9780029166765 paperback
0029166764 paperback
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