50 Years After the Tuskegee Revelations: Why Does the Mistrust Linger?

Am J Public Health

James H. Jones is an independent historian who taught at the University of Arkansas, in Fayetteville, and University of Houston, Houston, TX. Susan M. Reverby is McLean Professor Emerita in the History of Ideas and Professor Emerita in Women's and Gender Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.

Published: November 2022

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