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."
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Sunday, July 8, 2018
The legacy of Thomas Parran is more troubling than you thought; The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 8, 2018
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