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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: An Insiders’ Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men

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In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of “the effects of untreated syphilis within the Negro male.” For the following 40 years―even after the development of penicillin, the cure for syphilis―these men were denied medical take care of this potentially fatal disease. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study used to be exposed in 1972, and in 1975 the federal government settled a lawsuit but stopped short of admitting wrongdoing. In 1997, President Bill Clinton welcomed five of the Study survivors to the White House and, on behalf of the nation, officially apologized for an experiment he described as wrongful and racist. On this book, the attorney for the boys describes the background of the Study, the investigation and the lawsuit, the events leading as much as the Presidential apology, and the continuing efforts to look that out of this painful and tragic episode of American history comes lasting good.

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