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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 174.280976149 EAN: 9780029166765 Edition: Revised ISBN: 0029166764 Label: Free Press Manufacturer: Free Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 297 Publication Date: January 15, 1993 Publisher: Free Press Studio: Free Press Related Items:
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 Rating:  - fascinatingthis is a truly fascinating read, and i recommend it to anyone curious. i read this at the suggestion of my psychology professor, and am still surprised by my prior ignorance to the study. bad blood is well-written and amazingly well-researched. bad blood is so intriguing that it reads like a novel, although it is actually a critique and record of a study that almost single-handedly brought about the current rules of ethics for human experimentation. Rating: - wowvery thought provoking...a must read for people who really want to know about public health and how the system (government) treated ( and perhaps to this day) treat the less privileged Rating: - Tuskegee Experiment & Crack EpidemicBad Blood points out that the US Surgeon General at the time was Hugh Smith Cumming. In 1939 he was responsible more than any other person for creating the system we now have in place that controls narcotics and other banned substances which San Jose Mercury News journalist and Pulitizer Prize Winner, Gary Webb, said was controlled by a handful of power elites through the CIA. Fearing a race war when Webb's information was exposed, Bill Clinton, who apolgized for the Tuskegee Experiment, ... Read More Rating: - African-American Victims Of Government Laboratory Experiments!!!One of the least known facts of U.S. history is the government sponsored syphilis experiment conducted upon 399 African-American men from 1932 to 1972. Over the course of these five decades, the U.S. Public Health Service exploited African-American sharecroppers in its effort to determine if the long-term affects of syphilis were different for black people than it was for white people. During the trials, the doctors who conducted the experimentations intentionally denied these men treatment; never informed ... Read More Rating:  - Something In This Milk Ain't "White" BluesDuring the 40 years of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, the school had threee usa negroid ethnic presidents... Dr. Robert R. Moton Dr. Frederick D. Patterson Dr. Luther H. Foster Interesting, also is the little mentioned fact that more than 200 USA Negroid ethnic medical students and 600 USA Negroid ethnic nursing students did clinic rounds within the Syphilis Study... Why did not one of these "professional and educated" Negroes sound the alarm that something ... Read More 
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