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...It reminds me of a conversation I recently had with Michelle Robinson, a professor at the University of North Carolina who teaches a course on the ethics of standup comedy....
...“Tuskegee wasn’t a one-off,” says Tyson Head. As she points out, inequalities in healthcare continue today....
...A study by Marcella Alsan, at Stanford Medical School, and Marianne Wanamaker, at the University of Tennessee, found that the distrust in the medical system bred by Tuskegee had spread throughout the black...
...Dorit Reiss, a professor at University of California Hastings College of the Law, said: “The anti-vaccine movement is kind of like a pyramid scheme....
...But David Hodge, lead ethicist at Tuskegee University, said “present factors are just as vicious — perhaps more so”....
...He was speaking at the University of Miami’s school of medicine, one of the 89 trial sites....
...Add in African-American scepticism of medical authority, which is deeply-grounded in the postwar Tuskegee experiments (where hundreds were given syphilis and denied access to penicillin)....
...For four decades, starting in 1932, federal public health officials and researchers at Tuskegee University conducted a study of 600 poor black men with syphilis....
...Equally, Yale means something different to Tuskegee. Such details aren’t everything, but they’re a start....
...Brown University, under president Ruth Simmons, a great-granddaughter of slaves, has launched a Committee on Slavery and Justice to spend two years studying the university’s ties to slavery....
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