Making Medical Subjects: Regeneration, Experimentation, and Women in the Guatemalan Spring.
In the 1940s, US and Guatemalan doctors working with the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB) intentionally exposed at least 1,308 Guatemalan sex workers, prisoners, hospital patients, and soldiers to three sexually transmitted infections (STIs)—syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid. The doctors aimed t...
| Publicado en: | Hispanic American Historical Review Vol. 102; no. 2; pp. 251 - 285 |
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Duke University Press
May2022
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