Vassar Scholarship
Tuskegee and the Health of Black Infants
Publication Date
2021-January-01
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Department or Program
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Abstract
For nearly half a century, the American government funded the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male." As the name suggests, this experiment abused black men from Alabama and required medical professionals to withhold care from the test...
