Tuskegee's Truths
Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
2012
- About this editionISBN: 9781469608723, 1469608723Page count: 664Published: December 2012Format: E-bookPublisher: University of North Carolina PressLanguage: EnglishEditor: Susan M. ReverbyBetween 1932 and 1972, approximately six hundred African American men in Alabama served as unwitting guinea pigs in what is now considered one of the worst examples of arrogance, racism, and duplicity in American medical research--the Tuskegee syphilis study. Told they were being treated for "bad blood," the nearly four hundred men with late-stage syphilis and two hundred disease-free men who served as controls were kept away from appropriate treatment and plied instead with placebos, nursing visits, and the promise of decent burials. Despite the publication of more than a dozen reports in respected medical and public health journals, the study continued for forty years, until extensive media coverage finally brought the experiment to wider public knowledge and forced its end.
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