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To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down : Tuskegee University’s Advancements in Human Health, 1881–1987 / Dana R. Chandler and Edith Powell ; foreword by Linda Kenney Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chandler, Dana R. (Dana Ray), 1958- author.
- Powell, Edith, 1940- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tuskegee University--History.
- Tuskegee University.
- African American universities and colleges--Alabama--History.
- African American universities and colleges.
- Medicine--Research--Alabama--History.
- Medicine.
- Poliomyelitis vaccine--History.
- Poliomyelitis vaccine.
- History, 20th Century.
- History, 19th Century.
- Race Relations--history.
- Poliovirus Vaccines--history.
- Health Services--history.
- Biomedical Research--history.
- Universities--history.
- Alabama.
- Medical Subjects:
- History, 20th Century.
- History, 19th Century.
- Race Relations--history.
- Poliovirus Vaccines--history.
- Health Services--history.
- Biomedical Research--history.
- Universities--history.
- Alabama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- An important historical account of Tuskegee University's significant advances in health care, which affected millions of lives worldwide.Alabama's celebrated, historically black Tuskegee University is most commonly associated with its founding president, Booker T.
- Contents:
- Tuskegee's commitment to health care : an overview
- Health education and outreach expands
- The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the Carver Research Foundation
- The search for the vaccine
- Tuskegee University's HeLa Cell Project
- After the polio vaccine.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-9191-6
- OCLC:
- 1042445118
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