EditorialThe Orgy aka The Rake at the Rose-Tavern (A Rake's Progress) 1735 The Tavern Scene shows the Rake amusing himself in a notorious brothel, the Rose Tavern in Covent Garden, after an evening of drinking and hooliganism. Next to the Rake on the flo...
EditorialLucenia Williams Dunn at home in Tuskegee, Ala., Sept. 12, 2021. Dunn, who was not in favor of getting inoculated until a few months ago, finds it hard to separate the painful history of the Tuskegee syphilis study from the creation of COVID-19 vaccines. (Matthew Odom/The New York Times)
EditorialRicord, Philippe (1800-1889), French physician and surgeon. He described the three states of syphilis and their distinction between that disease and gonorrhea. Engraving, 1865.
EditorialFrom 1932 to 1972, doctors in the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, intentionally did not treat Black men for the disease, so they could study the progress of symptoms. (National Archives via The New York Times)
EditorialRicord, Philippe (1800-1889), French physician and surgeon. He described the three states of syphilis and their distinction between that disease and gonorrhea. Engraving, 1865.
EditorialRicord, Philippe (1800-1889), French physician and surgeon. He described the three states of syphilis and their distinction between that disease and gonorrhea. Engraving, 1865.
EditorialThe Orgy aka The Rake at the Rose-Tavern (A Rake's Progress) 1735 The Tavern Scene shows the Rake amusing himself in a notorious brothel, the Rose Tavern in Covent Garden, after an evening of drinking and hooliganism. Next to the Rake on the flo...