Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
(Part of the Studies in Social Medicine Series)
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Between 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807848522
ISBN13:9780807848524
Release Date:July 2000
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:664 Pages
Weight:2.06 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.0" x 9.2"
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