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Bad Blood by James H. Jones (1992, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherFree Press
ISBN-100029166764
ISBN-139780029166765
eBay Product ID (ePID)20954
Product Key Features
Number of Pages336 Pages
Publication NameBad Blood
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEthics, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Human Rights, General, Infectious Diseases, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year1992
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Health & Fitness, Social Science, History, Medical
AuthorJames H. Jones
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight13.7 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number2
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN92-034818
Dewey Edition20
ReviewsJames T. Patterson Author of The Dread Disease: Cancer & Modern American Culture By eschewing sensationalism, Jones offers a compelling narrative that enhances our understanding of race relations in the twentieth-century South, of professionalism in medicine, and of American liberalism. Bad Blood deserves to win a prize., C. Vann Woodward Author of The Strange Career of Jim Crow Bad Blood is an important book, an authentic and appalling study of how the educated deliberately deceived and betrayed the uneducated in our own times through a government agency.", The New York Times Book ReviewAs an authentic, exquisitely detailed case study of the consequences of racism in American life, this book should be read by everyone who worries about the racial meanings of government policy and social practice in the United States., James T. PattersonAuthor of The Dread Disease: Cancer & Modern American Culture By eschewing sensationalism, Jones offers a compelling narrative that enhances our understanding of race relations in the twentieth-century South, of professionalism in medicine, and of American liberalism. Bad Blood deserves to win a prize., Benjaminl HooksExecutive Director, National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeopleBad Blood is a shocking and bold report of scientific cruelty and moral idiocy...The moral and ethical questions this book raises come into sharp focus and are compelling., C. Vann WoodwardAuthor of The Strange Career of Jim CrowBad Blood is an important book, an authentic and appalling study of how the educated deliberately deceived and betrayed the uneducated in our own times through a government agency.", The Washington Post Book World This is a valuable, superbly researched, fair-minded, profoundly troubling, and clearly written book., C. Vann WoodwardAuthor ofThe Strange Career of Jim CrowBad Bloodis an important book, an authentic and appalling study of how the educated deliberately deceived and betrayed the uneducated in our own times through a government agency.", The New York Times Book Review As an authentic, exquisitely detailed case study of the consequences of racism in American life, this book should be read by everyone who worries about the racial meanings of government policy and social practice in the United States., Benjaminl HooksExecutive Director, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Bad Blood is a shocking and bold report of scientific cruelty and moral idiocy...The moral and ethical questions this book raises come into sharp focus and are compelling., Benjaminl Hooks Executive Director, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Bad Blood is a shocking and bold report of scientific cruelty and moral idiocy...The moral and ethical questions this book raises come into sharp focus and are compelling.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal616.95130072076149
Table Of ContentContents Preface to the New and Expanded Edition Acknowledgments A Note on Spelling and Punctuation 1 "A Moral Astigmatism" 2 "A Notoriously Syphilis-Soaked Race" 3 "Disease Germs Are the Most Democratic Creatures in the World" 4 "Holding High Wasserman in the Marketplace" 5 "The Dr. Ain't Taking Sticks" 6 "Buying Ear Muffs for the Hottentots" 7 "It Will Either Cover Us with Mud or Glory" 8 "Last Chance for Special Free Treatment" 9 "Bringing Them to Autopsy" 10 "The Joy of My Life" 11 "Even at Risk of Shortening Life" 12 "Nothing Learned Will Prevent, Find, or Cure a Single Case" 13 "I Ain't Never Understood the Study" 14 "AIDS: Is It Genocide?" Notes A Note on Sources Indexes About the Author
Edition DescriptionRevised edition,Expanded
SynopsisFrom 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatment. Its purpose was to trace the spontaneous evolution of the disease in order to learn how syphilis affected black subjects. From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatment. Its purpose was to trace the spontaneous evolution of the disease in order to learn how syphilis affected black subjects. The men were not told they had syphilis; they were not warned about what the disease might do to them; and, with the exception of a smattering of medication during the first few months, they were not given health care. Instead of the powerful drugs they required, they were given aspirin for their aches and pains. Health officials systematically deceived the men into believing they were patients in a government study of "bad blood", a catch-all phrase black sharecroppers used to describe a host of illnesses. At the end of this 40 year deathwatch, more than 100 men had died from syphilis or related complications. "Bad Blood" provides compelling answers to the question of how such a tragedy could have been allowed to occur. Tracing the evolution of medical ethics and the nature of decision making in bureaucracies, Jones attempted to show that the Tuskegee Study was not, in fact, an aberration, but a logical outgrowth of race relations and medical practice in the United States. Now, in this revised edition of "Bad Blood", Jones traces the tragic consequences of the Tuskegee Study over the last decade. A new introduction explains why the Tuskegee Study has become a symbol of black oppression and a metaphor for medical neglect, inspiring a prize-winning play, a Nova special, and a motion picture. A new concluding chapter shows how the black community's wide-spread anger and distrust caused by the Tuskegee Study has hampered efforts by health officials to combat AIDS in the black community. "Bad Blood" was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and was one of the "N.Y. Times" 12 best books of the year.
LC Classification NumberR853.H8J66 1993
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