Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
Subtitle: A Tragedy of Race and Medicine
Publisher: Free Press
Published: September 1, 1982
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780029166901
First sentence: In late July of 1972, Jean Heller of the Associated Press broke the story: for forty years the United States Public Health Service (PHS) had been conducting a study of the effects of untreated syphilis on black men in Macon County, Alabama, in and around the county seat of Tuskegee.