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UNINA9910972716503321 |
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Autore |
Chandler Dana R (Dana Ray), <1958-> |
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Titolo |
To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down : Tuskegee University’s Advancements in Human Health, 1881–1987 / / Dana R. Chandler and Edith Powell ; foreword by Linda Kenney Miller |
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Tuscaloosa, : The University of Alabama Press, [2018] |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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An important historical account of Tuskegee University's significant advances in health care, which affected millions of lives worldwide.Alabama's celebrated, historically black Tuskegee University is most commonly associated with its founding president, Booker T. |
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