“Special Treatment”: BiDil, Tuskegee, and the Logic of Race

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 36 (3):478-484 (2008)
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BiDil, a drug approved in 2005 by the FDA only for African Americans, was seen by many as almost reparations for the horrors of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study where treatment for black men was denied. The logic of race, however, rather than racism, links BiDil to the past many thought it was escaping

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10.1111/j.1748-720x.2008.294.x

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