Parran
Americannoun
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Parran saw medicine and public health as “two facets of a unit problem” and pushed for their integration like Winslow recommended.
From Salon • Mar. 6, 2025
Parran was both a member and trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation at the time, and the complaint states that he “committed The Rockefeller Foundation and its staff and resources to the Guatemala experiments.”
From Slate • Feb. 26, 2017
According to a government biography, Dr. Parran was famous for his long campaign against syphilis, which was then a major public health problem but could not even be mentioned on the radio.
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2011
Thomas Parran, who was then U.S. surgeon general, clearly knew the experiment was unethical, Reverby said.
From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2010
The Hon. Thomas Parran summed up for the suffragists.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Harper, Ida Husted
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