Scott W. Stern, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; The legacy of Thomas Parran is more troubling than you though
"University of Pittsburgh trustees last month voted to remove from a
university building the name of Thomas Parran, who served as U.S.
surgeon general from 1936 to 1948 and was founding dean of Pitt’s
Graduate School of Public Health.
For decades, Parran has been notorious for overseeing the infamous
Tuskegee syphilis experiments, in which the government withheld
treatment from poor black men with syphilis in rural Alabama from 1932
to 1972. In more recent years, Parran gained additional notoriety for
his role in overseeing an even crueler study the government conducted in
Guatemala, in which government officials intentionally infected female
sex workers with syphilis.
So, the renaming was long overdue.
However, there is another way
Thomas Parran’s legacy remains with the residents of Pittsburgh — one
that virtually no one knows about."
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