The Tuskegee Syphilis Study : An Insider's 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 in the Negro male." For the next 40 years -- even after the development of penicillin, the cure for syphilis -- these men were denied medical care for this potentially fatal disease.
