Tuskegee's Truths
Subtitle: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (Studies in Social Medicine)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; University of North Carolina Press
Published: June 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780807848524
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; History of medicine; Medical research; Public health & preventive medicine; Venereal diseases; Tuskegee Syphilis Study; 20th century; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; United States - 20th Century; Discrimination & Racism; Medical / Nursing; Human experimentation in medicine; Medical; Alabama; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Ethics; History / United States / 20th Century; Medical : Ethics; Research; Syphilis; 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.