num_pages: 272
description: An account of the experiment performed on unkowing black sharecroppers describes how the U.S. Public Health Service allowed the syphilis in the sharecroppers to take its course without treatment and explains how such a tragedy occurred.
language: English
title: Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A Tragedy of Race and Medicine
titlecomplete: Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A Tragedy of Race and Medicine
genres: Medicine, Science, African American, Nonfiction, Medical, History, Health, American History, Race, Politics
ratings_count: 821
publisher: Free Press