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To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down - Tuskegee University's Advancements in Human Health, 1881-1987 (Hardcover)
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To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down - Tuskegee University's Advancements in Human Health, 1881-1987 (Hardcover)
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An important historical account of Tuskegee University's
significant advances in health care, which affected millions of
lives worldwide. Tuskegee University is most commonly associated
with its founding president, Booker T. Washington, the scientific
innovator George Washington Carver, or the renowned Tuskegee
Airmen. Although the university's accomplishments and devotion to
social issues are well known, its work in medical research and
health care has received little acknowledgment. Yet Tuskegee has
been fulfilling Washington's vision of "healthy minds and bodies"
since its inception in 1881. In To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down,
Dana R. Chandler and Edith Powell document Tuskegee University's
medical and public health history with rich archival data and
never-before-published photographs. Tuskegee University was on the
forefront in providing local farmers the benefits of their agrarian
research and helped create the massive Agricultural Extension
System managed today by land grant universities throughout the
United States. Tuskegee established the first baccalaureate nursing
program in the state and was also home to Alabama's first hospital
for African Americans. Washington accepted the first licensed
female physician in the state for the position of resident
physician at Tuskegee. And, most notably, it Tuskegee was the site
of a remarkable development in American biochemistry history: its
microbiology laboratory was the only one relied upon by the
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP) to produce the
HeLa cell cultures employed in the national field trials for the
Salk and Sabin polio vaccines. Chandler and Powell are also
interested in correcting a long-held but false historical
perception that Tuskegee University's medical research legacy
begins and ends with its involvement with the shameful and infamous
"study" of untreated syphilis. Meticulously researched, this book
is filled with previously undocumented information taken directly
from the vast Tuskegee University archives. Readers will gain a new
appreciation for how Tuskegee's people and institutions have
influenced community health, food science, and national medical
life throughout the twentieth century.
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