Antisepsis with Argyrol, Acrimony and Advocacy for African Art
Abstract
Despite lack of evidence regarding its antiseptic superiority over silver nitrate for preventing ophthalmia neonatorum, Argyrol was promoted so savvily by Albert Coombs Barnes that the revenues enabled him to amass a unique art collection reflecting his early appreciation of the African influence on European painters. He addressed social disparities specially through access for disadvantaged individuals to his iconoclastic foundation and collaboration with a local African-American university. Legal wrangling over complex management issues and distinctive display arrangements, led to fiscal anguish, cultural torment and local affliction over that trove which is currently relocating to downtown Philadelphia (Afr J Reprod Health 2011; 15[3]:9-14).
Résumé
Antisepticémie avec argyrol, l’acrimonie et le plaidoyer pour l’art africain: Albert Coombs a tellement promu Argyrol d’une manière futée sans le manque d’évidence à l’égard de sa supériorité antiseptique par rapport au nitrate d’argent pour la prévention de la conjonctivite gonococcique du nouveau-né, de sorte que l’argent lui ait permis d’amasser une collection unique d’art qui reflète ses appréciations initiales de l’influence africaine sur les peintres européens. Il s’est adressé aux disparités sociales surtout à travers l’accès à la fondation iconoclaste par des individus défavorisés et la collaboration avec une université Afro-Américaine locale. La dispute légale sur les questions administratives et les arrangements d’exposition distincts ont entrainé l’angoisse fiscale, la torture culturelle et l’affliction locale à cause du trésor qui actuellement s’installe ailleurs au centre de la Philadelphie (Afr J
Reprod Health 2011; 15[3]:9-14).
Keywords: Sexually transmitted infections; Newborn; Maternal health; Mother-to-child transmission; Partnerships; Equity
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