From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatment. It purpose was to trace the spontaneous evolution of the disease in order to learn how syphilis affected black subjects. The men ...
In this path-breaking biography, James H. Jones unlocks the long-closed archives of the Kinsey Institute to present a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Jones has written an incisive, psychologically nuanced portrait that truly separates the myth from the man. Drawing from ...
A portrait of the principal architect of the sexual revolution. This book aims to show that the public image Kinsey cultivated of a disinterested biologist, was in fact a carefully crafted public persona.
Between 1932 and 1972 approximately 600 African American men in Alabama served unwittingly as guinea pigs in the Tuskegee syphilis study. This volume gathers articles, contemporary newspaper accounts, selections from reports and letters, and other reconsiderations of the study.
Women with uterine disorders now have more choices than ever before - aggressive or minimally invasive surgery, hormonal manipulation, laser ablation, and so on. It is no longer acceptable simply to offer a choice of abdominal or vaginal hysterectomy to the patient with abnormal bleeding, whether due to fibroids, uterine cancer, or the menopause. ...
Great and little known Americans speak out in their own words, from Columbus to the present, from the pages of "A People's History of the United States."Abridged. 3 CDs.
Social history-with an emphasis on sports, leisure, and popular culture-is effectively integrated with more traditional coverage of military history, politics, and diplomacy. This edition highlights the rich ethnic diversity of the American people with vivid character sketches, colorful anecdotes, primary sources, new pedagogy, and a spirited ...
The Civil War is usually regarded as a purely domestic struggle. The essays in The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim demonstrate that the conflict was an international event that affected, and was affected by, the policies of many countries. These four prize-winning historians reconsider why the Confederacy never received the foreign ...
Now in its Fifth Edition, America and Its Peoples presents American history filled with the drama and conflict that holds the attention of all students. Social history--with an emphasis on sports, leisure, and popular culture--is effectively integrated with more traditional coverage of military history, politics, and diplomacy. This edition ...
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