Minority Health and Health Equity Archive

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    Philosophical Reflections on Experimenting with Human Subjects
    (Biomedical Ethics and the Law, 1976) Jonas, Hans
    Experimenting with human subjects is going on in many fields of scientific and technological progress. It is designed to replace the overall instruction by natural, occasional, and cumulative experience with the selective information from artificial, systematic experiment which physicial science has found so effective in dealing with inanimate nature. Of the new experimentation with man, medical is surely the most legitimate; psychological, the most dubious; biological (still to come), the most dangerous. I have chosen here to deal with the first only, where the case for it is strongest and the task of adjudicating conflicting claims hardest. When I was first asked1 to comment “philosophically” on it, I had all the hesitation natural to a layman in the face of matters on which experts of the highest competence have had their say and still carry on their dialogue. As I familiarized myself with the material,2 any initial feeling of moral rectitude that might have facilitated my task quickly dissipated before the awesome complexity of the problem, and a state of great humility took its place. The awareness of the problem in all its shadings and ramifications speaks out with such authority, perception, and sophistication in the published discussions of the researchers themselves that it would be foolish of me to hope that I, an onlooker on the sidelines, could tell those battling in the arena anything they have not pondered themselves. Still, since the matter is obscure by its nature and involves very fundamental, transtechnical issues, anyone’s attempt at clarification can be of use, even without novelty. And even if the philosophical reflection should in the end achieve no more than the realization that in the dialectics of this area we must sin and fall into guilt, this insight may not be without its own gains.
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    The ‘Tuskegee Study’ of syphilis: Analysis of moral versus methodologic aspects
    (1978) BENEDEK, T
    The background and course of the prospective investigation of the “natural history” of syphilis which was conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service in Macon County, Alabama from 1932 to 1972 (the “Tuskegee Study”) is reviewed. Unpublished correspondence is cited to illustrate some of the attitudes and problems of the investigators. The relevance of certain other studies of syphilis to the interpretation of the Tuskegee data which were not discussed by the investigators is shown. The study is analyzed by the application of some general principles of scientific investigation set forth at the beginning of the article.
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    NATIONAL NEGRO HEALTH WEEK TO BE OBSERVED APRIL I TO 8, 1928
    (1928) Public Health Reportsl, Staff
    The week of April 1 to April 8, 1928, has been set aside for the fourteenth observance of National Negro Health Week. State and municipal health departments, voluntary health organizations, and numerous other official and unofficial agencies interested in race welfare and advancement are cooperating with the United States Public Health Service in a determined effort to improve health and living conditions.
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    “Syphilis: National Negro Health Week”
    (1934) UNSPECIFIED
    “Syphilis: National Negro Health Week”, April 1, 1934. Two leaf fold-over. Fort Worth. Ransom Ransom, R. A., Chairman of Committee on Social Diseases & Chief Surgeon of Fort Worth Negro Hospital. Printed by Bragg Printing Co. This was the 20th meeting of the organization which was started by Booker T. Washington, as noted in the text.
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    National Meetings: Preliminary Conference Regarding National Negro Health Week 1930
    (1930) Alexander, W.G.; Miller, Kelly, Jr.
    The annual conference of representatives from the several health and social agencies co-operatting in the National Negro Health Week movement called by the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service at the request of Dr. R. R. Moton, of Tuskegee Institute, was convened in Washington, D.C., October 19, 1929, to consider ways and means for the sixteenth annual observance of the National Negro Health Week, March 30 to April 6, 1930.
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    The March of Events
    (1947) Reynolds, Louis B.
    Because most Negro citizens — North and South — live in crowded ghettoes composed of rundown tenement structures with poor sanitary facilities, the disease rate among Negroes is high. 'The number of preventable deaths is disturbing. Thus late this month the nation will observe National Negro Health Week, a week dedicated to the health of the largest minority group within the American commonwealth. This 33rd annual Negro Health Week will be observed from March 30 to April 6. A nation-wide program, it is sponsored by the U. S. Public Health Service, in cooperation with state, county, and city health departments, and various voluntary health and civic organizations.
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    National Health Negro Week—A Radio Broadcast
    (1944) Turner, John P.
    Q.-Dr. Turner. How did National Negro Health Week begin? A.-National Negro Health Week was instituted thirty years ago by the late Dr. Booker T. Washington, whose philosophy of head, heart, hand and health brought into existence a movement that has extended into every section of the United States. In Philadelphia this year, we are most fortunate in that our Board of Public Health is sponsoring Health Week, with twenty-three cooperating agencies, among them Hospitals, Nursing Societies, Churches, Christian Associations, Parent-Teachers Associations, Medical Societies, Red Cross, Social Agencies and Educational As. sociations.
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    National Negro Health Week
    (1922) Greene, D.
    This year's Negro Health Week, the eighth held, was conducted by Dr. R. R. Moton, of Tuskegee Institute, April 2-8, under the auspices of the Annual Tuskegee Negro Conference and the National Negro Business League, and in co6peration with the U. S. Public Health Service, national and state tuberculosis societies, the Red Cross, American Social Hygiene Association, and many other organizations. The purpose was to reduce morbidity and mortality among Negroes by educational methods, with particular emphasis on tuberculosis, infant mortality and venereal diseases.
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    The National Negro Health Week Movement
    (1937) Brown, Roscoe C.
    The birth of the National Negro Health Week was the timely fruition of Booker T. Washington’s practicable philosophy of “head, heart, hand, - and health” education for effective service and wholesome living. Dr. Robert R. Moton, Principal Emeritus of Tuskegee Institute, who as successor to Dr. Washington in 1915, guided the National Negro Health Week movement toward its destined objectives, in his article, “Organized Negro Effort for Racial Progress,” briefly defined the origin of the Health Week: Another movement of large public significance which has met with gratifying success and which also originated within the race itself is what is known as National Negro Health Week. This movement originated in Virginia in 1913, but was shortly after nationalized by the late Dr. Booker T. Washington…