Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States for the Fiscal Year 1938
Washington. GPO, 1938. 1st ed. Hardcover. photo, index, 184p. Later 1/4 cloth over marbled boards with original wrappers bound in. 23 cm. Library labels on backstrip and library stamp on title page from alibrary in Zurich. Pages 131-132 contain a carryover paragraph titled "Untreated Syphillis in the Negro" which described the ongoing Tuskegee study and made it quite clear that the study included a group getting "adequate treatment" and a group getting "no treatment." Despite the development of highly effective treatment with penicillin by 1947, this infamous study continued to leave one group untreated to study the effects of the disease until 1972 when the implications of the study were finally brought to the attention of the broader public. Very Good. Item #93306
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