Parran
Americannoun
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Parran spoke at the conference about the need to think beyond “the separateness of preventative and curative efforts to reduce death and disease” because all health efforts “are parts of the same entity.”
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2025
Parran noted that “you could run into Abdul Wadud anywhere.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
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
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 Ida Husted Harper
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