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Great-granddaughter of Tuskegee Study victim gets vaccine
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Great-granddaughter of Tuskegee Study victim gets vaccine
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Great-granddaughter of Tuskegee Study victim getting COVID vaccine
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
Posted Feb 24, 2021
Peggy Fitzpatrick, 65, stands for a portrait holding an image of her great grandfather, Willie Fitzpatrick, at East Lake Park in Atlanta s East Lake community, Thursday, February 11, 2021. Willie was a victim of the Tuskegee Experiments, which was an unethical medical study that targeted Black men for more than 40 years. Despite this experiment being a part of Peggy s family legacy, she is still seeking to participate in the COVID-19 vaccination. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)TNS
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By Shelia Poole The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS) and Tribune Media Services
Peggy Fitzpatrick Tatum recently spent two weeks trying to book an appointment to get the COVID-19 vaccine before eventually landing a date.
‘A Cautionary Tale’
Harriet Washington ’76 has long been haunted by the sordid, and often gruesome, exploitation of black people by some medical researchers.
As a Rochester undergraduate, when she was supposed to be studying Chaucer in Rush Rhees or preparing for a test in genetics, she immersed herself in titles like
Burma Doctor and
My Patients Were Zulus, books which detailed the adventures of 19th-century medical researchers trying out new techniques on unsuspecting “natives.”
“I fell in love with these medical adventurers as they went off to these exotic lands,” says Washington, who lives in Manhattan with her husband, Ron DeBose. “Their memoirs portrayed the march of medicine, but I was
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