Tuskegee's Truths
Subtitle: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (Studies in Social Medicine)
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9780807825396
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; History of medicine; Medical Research; Public health & preventive medicine; Venereal diseases; Syphilis; 20th century; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Tuskegee Syphilis Study; Blacks In The U.S; Medical / Nursing; Human experimentation in medicine; Medical; United States - 20th Century; Alabama; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Discrimination & Racism; Ethics; Research; African American men; Diseases; History; Human experimentation in medic; Macon County
First sentence: In 1932 the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) initiated an experiment in Macon County, Alabama, to determine the natural course of untreated, latent syphilis in black males.