{"product_id":"to-raise-up-the-man-farthest-down-tuskegee-universitys-advancements-in-human-health-1881-1987-hardback-9780817319892","title":"To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down; Tuskegee University's Advancements in Human Health, 1881–1987 (Hardback) 9780817319892","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTo Raise Up the Man Farthest Down\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTuskegee University's Advancements in Human Health, 1881–1987\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDana R. Chandler (Author), Edith Powell (Author), Linda Kenney Miller (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817319892\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 July 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages, 60 black \u0026amp; white figures\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.493 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA timely and important historical account of significant advances in health care made at Tuskegee over the span of more than a century. . . . \u003ci\u003eTo Raise Up the Man Farthest Down\u003c\/i\u003e recognizes the tenures of [five] Tuskegee presidents for their efforts to eradicate the racial, social, and cultural obstacles that they faced in their collective quest to maintain fidelity to the mission first espoused by Dr. Washington: high quality educational programs, effective public health policies, and equal opportunity.\"\" - from the foreword by Linda Kenney Miller\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAn important historical account of Tuskegee University’s significant advances in health care, which affected millions of lives worldwide.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eTuskegee University is most commonly associated with its founding president, Booker T. Washington, the scientific innovator George Washington Carver, or the renowned Tuskegee Airmen. Although the university’s accomplishments and devotion to social issues are well known, its work in medical research and health care has received little acknowledgment. Yet Tuskegee has been fulfilling Washington’s vision of “healthy minds and bodies” since its inception in 1881. In \u003ci\u003eTo Raise Up the Man Farthest Down\u003c\/i\u003e, Dana R. Chandler and Edith Powell document Tuskegee University’s medical and public health history with rich archival data and never-before-published photographs.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eTuskegee University was on the forefront in providing local farmers the benefits of their agrarian research and helped create the massive Agricultural Extension System managed today by land grant universities throughout the United States. Tuskegee established the first baccalaureate nursing program in the state and was also home to Alabama’s first hospital for African Americans. Washington accepted the first licensed female physician in the state for the position of resident physician at Tuskegee. And, most notably, it Tuskegee was the site of a remarkable development in American biochemistry history: its microbiology laboratory was the only one relied upon by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP) to produce the HeLa cell cultures employed in the national field trials for the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines. Chandler and Powell are also interested in correcting a long-held but false historical perception that Tuskegee University’s medical research legacy begins and ends with its involvement with the shameful and infamous “study” of untreated syphilis.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eMeticulously researched, this book is filled with previously undocumented information taken directly from the vast Tuskegee University archives. Readers will gain a new appreciation for how Tuskegee’s people and institutions have influenced community health, food science, and national medical life throughout the twentieth century.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570145849624,"sku":"9780817319892","price":27.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/to-raise-up-the-man-farthest-down-tuskegee-universitys-advancements-in-human-health-1881-1987-hardback-9780817319892","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}