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The Secret Story of How a Revered Future Surgeon General Inspired the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

SHAMEFUL HISTORIES

The discovery of Thomas Parran’s papers confirms that he was much more involved in Tuskegee than anyone ever knew. And Tuskegee was the tip of a very ugly iceberg.

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