Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

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Recruiting Women Smokers: The Engineering of Consent

A range of social forces contributed to the effective recruitment of women to cigarette smoking in the crucial period between 1900 and 1940. Cigarette advertisers and public relations experts recognized the significance of womens changing roles and the rising culture of consumption, and worked to create specific meanings for the cigarette to make it appeal to women. The cigarette was a flexible symbol, with a remarkably elastic set of meanings; for women, it represented rebellious independence, glamour, seduction, and sexual allure, and served as a symbol for both feminists and flappers. The industry, with the help of advertisers and public relations experts, effectively engineered consent for women as smokers. The engineering of consent has a role to play in smoking cessation, since negative meanings for the cigarette can be engineered as well.History of Scienc

Sexually Transmitted Disease: Shadow on the Land Revisited

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AIDS in Historical Perspective: Four Lessons from the History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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Medical Nemesis?

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Emerging Themes in the History of Medicine

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The Ways and Means of American Medicine

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The Cigarette, Risk, and American Culture

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The Syphilis Epidemic and its Relation to AIDS

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Exploring the Dangerous Trades

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