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experiment. However, many such as Fred Gray, a legal post who had been counsel to the
Tuskegee Institute, supported Dibble and objected to holding Dibble accountable for the controversial events of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, arguing that Dibble was just as much a victim as the participants. His argument was based upon class divisions, and he argued that because Black institutions relied heavily upon funding from white philanthropy, they could not afford to object to the U.S. government for participation in the study.
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patients. The program continued into the late 1940s. After 1949, the
Society changed its objective to providing an expanded teaching clinic, and provided programs in which attending physicians would be informed about the latest techniques in medicine and surgery. Dibble played an instrumental role in the Society, serving as Secretary of the Society from 1924 to 1926, and then from 1946 and 1965. He resigned from the Society on August 4, 1965.
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Tuskegee Syphilis Study spurred outrage for its mistreatment and denial of treatment of Blacks, and many questions have been raised for the participation of Black physicians such as Dibble. It has been suggested that their participation could also be accounted due to class divisions between Black
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Tuskegee Institute needed to provide research opportunities as well as clinical care. When the offer to work on the study came, he accepted it for the opportunity to gain resources as well as funding for medical care. The study provided specialists for the patients,
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due to Dibble's persuasion of Dr. Robert Moton, the president of the institute, to hold the experiments at his hospital. He saw the
Tuskegee study as "very valuable training for our students as well as for the interns.... our own hospital and the Tuskegee Institute would get credit for this piece of
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Clinical Society was one of his main means of accomplishing this. Through the Society's
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was appointed to Dibble. In the 1950s, Dibble reported on the study as part of the work of John A. Andrew
Memorial Hospital and titled it: "the U.S. Public Health Service study of syphilis in the Negro male in Macon County." In his report he mentions the study and the examinations but the word
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physicians and the Black community. Black, upper-middle class physicians did not identify themselves with the poor Black community. Therefore, their participation in the syphilis study was an attempt to prove to the white medical community of their capability in medical research.
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support of an annual clinic that provided medical assistance to needy patients, African-American physicians, who had largely been denied hospital privileges, were provided them a chance to work with other specialists and physicians. The clinic was organized and directed by Dr.
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was an experiment conducted throughout a period of forty years, from 1932 to 1972, in which doctors observed the progression or the natural course of untreated syphilis in 600 African American men. The study was initiated by the
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