Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
James H. Jones
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1932–1972 · Macon County, Alabama
The men harmed by the Tuskegee syphilis study
Public health & patient rights
Black men in a U.S. Public Health Service study were misled about its purpose and denied adequate treatment for syphilis. Public exposure of the study in 1972 intensified demands for research safeguards. Bad Blood investigates the history; Miss Evers’ Boys uses fictionalized characters to dramatize it.
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When1932–1972
WhereMacon County, Alabama
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