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- Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- “From 1932 to 1972, 399 African-American males were denied treatment for syphilis and deceived by officials of the United States Public Health Service” as unknowing participants in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, a research study conducted to observe the effects of syphilis. This website gives background information on the Study and examines its aftermath. The site contains an overview of the 1994 symposium entitled “Doing Bad in the Name of Good?: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and its Legacy;” the final report of the committee that investigated the study and its legacy; information on President Clinton’s formal apology in 1997; and a 2002 NPR article discussing the lasting, detrimental effects of the Study. (Source: University of Virginia Health System Health Sciences Library)
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- Guide to Library and Archival Collections of African Americans in Medicine and Biomedical Research
- This site provides a guide for researchers interested in collections on African American medical history. Provided on the site is information on the collection holdings of several libraries, archives, and museums. (Source: National Library of Medicine)
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- MI--Kellogg African American Health Care Project
- From 1998-2000, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Michigan funded the University of Michigan Medical School's research project, "Documenting the Health Care Experiences of African Americans in Southeastern Michigan: The Compilation and Dissemination of Primary Resources Relating to Health Care, the Health Professions and the Health Sciences." The project sought "to collect and preserve information on the health care-related history of southeast Michigan African Americans during the critical period of 1940-1969" and "to address concerns regarding the current needs and attitudes of African Americans with regard to health care in this geographic area." Excerpts from the oral histories and a bibliography of local and national sources used for the project are included. (Source: University of Michigan, Kellogg African American Health Care Project)
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- Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons
- The online companion to the traveling exhibition, "Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons," celebrates African American medical educators and their achievements while highlighting four contemporary pioneers in the field. The site includes history about the hospitals and colleges instrumental in the training of African American surgeons, including the Freedmen's Hospital, George W. Hubbard Hospital at Howard University, Provident Hospital and Training School, Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School, and Provident Hospital and Free Dispensary. (Source: United States National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health)
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- Partners of the Heart
- Part of the American Experience series supported by PBS, this site contains information about the documentary film Partners of the Heart, which examines the collaboration between a white surgeon and a high school educated African American man who cured a heart defect known as “blue baby syndrome” in 1944. This site features a film description and transcript, a guide to further reading, information about the time period, and a list of subjects interviewed for the film. (Source: PBS)
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- Tuskegee Experiment
- This site contains a NewsHour with Jim Lehrer transcript of an interview regarding President Clinton's public apology about the secret testing of syphilis on African American men from 1932 to 1972. (Source: PBS)
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- Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- This site focuses on the aftermath and response to the Tuskegee study of untreated syphilis in African American men from 1932 to1972. Included are a history and timeline of the Tuskegee Study, essays on how the study changed research practices, a transcript of President Clinton’s official apology, links to further online resources, and information on the syphilis disease. (Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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