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Allen Hornblum

Allen M. Hornblum is theauthor of Acres of Skin and Sentenced To Science.

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SHAMEFUL HISTORIES

He Inspired America's Most Unethical Medical Study

The discovery of Thomas Parran’s papers confirms that he was much more involved in Tuskegee than anyone ever knew. And Tuskegee was the tip of a very ugly iceberg.

Allen Hornblum

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