Invoking "Tuskegee": Problems in health disparities, genetic assumptions, and history

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 21, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2010, Pages 26-34

  Reverby, Susan M ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetics; Race; Syphilis; Tuskegee

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL GENETICS; NOMENCLATURE; RESEARCH ETHICS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALABAMA; ETHICS, RESEARCH; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; PREJUDICE; SYPHILIS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 77955996053     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.0.0354     Document Type: Article

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