The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men

by Fred D. Gray

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In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of "the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male." For the next 40 years--even after the development of penicillin, the cure for syphilis--these men were denied medical care for this potentially fatal disease. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was exposed in 1972, and in 1975 the government settled a lawsuit but stopped short of admitting...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1588380890

ISBN13:9781588380890

Release Date:March 2002

Publisher:NewSouth Books

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Administration & Medicine Economics African Americans African-American Studies Americas History Medical Medical Books Medical Ethics Medical History & Records Medicine

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