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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796803303321

Autore

Chandler Dana R (Dana Ray), <1958->

Titolo

To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down [[electronic resource] ] : Tuskegee University’s Advancements in Human Health, 1881–1987 / / Dana R. Chandler and Edith Powell ; foreword by Linda Kenney Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : The University of Alabama Press, [2018]

ISBN

0-8173-9191-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 pages)

Disciplina

610.71/176149

Soggetti

African American universities and colleges - Alabama - History

Medicine - Research - Alabama - History

Poliomyelitis vaccine - History

History, 20th Century

History, 19th Century

Race Relations - history

Poliovirus Vaccines - history

Health Services - history

Biomedical Research - history

Universities - history

Alabama

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Tuskegee's commitment to health care : an overview -- Health education and outreach expands -- The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the Carver Research Foundation -- The search for the vaccine -- Tuskegee University's HeLa Cell Project -- After the polio vaccine.