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The offhand remark that launched Guatemala's experiments
A casual remark in a Staten Island lab set American researchers on a path to use Guatemala’s legal brothels and clinics for venereal disease tests.
The offhand remark that launched Guatemala's experiments
In this episode, we trace how a routine conversation in 1945 led to a bilateral public health project in Guatemala City and the opening of a Venereal Diseases Training and Research Center in 1946. The episode follows the key figures, institutional routes, and decisions that made human inoculation studies possible - and asks how those choices were justified and organized.
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