The Tuskegee Legacy Project: History, preliminary scientific findings, and unanticipated societal benefits

Dental Clinics of North America

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-19

  Katz, Ralph V ^a   Kegeles, S Stephen ^b   Green, B Lee ^c   Kressin, Nancy R ^d   James, Sherman A ^e   Claudio, Cristina ^f  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HISTORY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SOCIETY; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CHANGE; STANDARD; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CLINICAL TRIALS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); PATIENT SELECTION; PILOT PROJECTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIAL CHANGE; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038014114     PISSN: 00118532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0011-8532(02)00049-6     Document Type: Review

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