Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

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" 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 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 knowledg