Tuskegee Syphilis Study
"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company". I can only wonder if it was "people of good quality" such as Dr Taliaferro Clark, the person most commonly attributed with leading the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, to whom Booker Taliaferro(T.) Washington was referring when he spoke those eloquent words so long ago. Doubtful really, as the years 1932-1972, the duration of the Public Health Service Syphilis Study, resulted in one of the greatest injustices ever -------------- upon a people by its own government, a true "black eye" on the face of the American Medical research.
As A result of A 1930 venereal disease control project survey identifying Macon County, Alabama as having the highest proportion of syphilis cases among the six southern states examined, in 1933 the venereal disease section of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) initiated a study to examine the destructive effects on the human body of the spirochetal bacterium,......
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