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THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS EXPERIMENT TOOK PLACE FROM 1932-1972 in macon county, Alabama to test for untreated syphilis in negro males.
https://tuskegeesyphilisexperimentt.weebly.com/doctors-involved.html
According to Thomas Szasz, real medicine is about fixing cellular pathology. Psychiatry, in contrast, is about social control.
Reading the government committee papers: "should we continue with the study?"
As they realize the study is probably over, they are scrambling to see if they can salvage it.
...our mechanism has broken down; Nurse Rivers is getting old, gets lost when she goes to visit patients.
..do you think cardiovascular disease is an indication for treatment?"
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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/281641
Dental Snuff / Photo of Victims
The first point I want to make, then emphasize, then re-emphasize, is that there is no ‘the’ cause of cardiovascular disease. By which I mean that there is not, and never has been, any one single factor that can be considered to be ‘the’ cause. Instead, there are many. They can work by themselves or combine with others.
So you can say that, for example, diabetes is ‘a’ cause of cardiovascular disease. But you cannot say that it is ‘the’ cause. Yes ‘a’ cause but not ‘the’ cause. This is not purely semantics. Whilst the difference may seem subtle, it is critical. A table, or the table. A man, or the man. An answer, or the answer.
If there is no ‘the’ cause, what does this mean in practice? It means that many different things, or factors, or whatever term you use to describe them, can lead to exactly the same disease.