Race and the Politics of Polio: Warm Springs, Tuskegee, and the March of Dimes

The Tuskegee Institute opened a polio center in 1941, funded by the March of Dimes. The center’s founding was the result of a new visibility of Black polio survivors and the growing political embarrassment around the policy of the Georgia Warm Springs polio rehabilitation center, which Franklin Roos...

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Main Author: Rogers, Naomi
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: © American Journal of Public Health 2007 2007
Subjects:
Public Health Then and Now
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1854857/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17395849
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2006.095406
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