"A study in nature": The Tuskegee experiments and the new south plantation

Journal of Medical Humanities

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 155-171

  Rusert, Britt ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Booker T. Washington; New South; Plantation science; Public health; Race and medicine; Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; RESEARCH ETHICS; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES; PREJUDICE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALABAMA; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; PREJUDICE; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69249222844     PISSN: 10413545     EISSN: 15733645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10912-009-9086-4     Document Type: Article

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