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SY
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SYSystem
SYSyria
SYSchool Year
SYShrewsbury (postcode, United Kingdom)
SYSonic Youth (band)
SYSyphilis
SYSouth Yorkshire
SYShipyard
SYNorth Bay (Ontario Northland Railway Code)
SYScrew You
SYSailing Yacht
SYScotland Yard
SYSquare Yard
SYStaff Year
SYSee You/Ya
SYShort-Yearlings
SYStrudwick & Young Ltd.


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She details the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study as well as the use of nonconsenting black prisoners, children, and medical patients in experiments examining the effects of radiation, contraceptive techniques, and bioterrorism agents.
Her best chapter comes as she revisits the syphilis experiment the United States Public Health Service performed in Tuskegee.
In Europe in the 19th century, more than 15% of the adult population and 70% of sex workers were estimated to have been infected with syphilis (7,8).
 
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