The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Feb 08, 2021, 05:41 PM

This week, Madigan and Keegan discuss a study run by both the US Public Health Service and the Center of Disease Control, which watched 600 Black men die of syphilis, without treatment. The study went on for forty years, and the effects of it are still felt today.


SOURCES:
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history/40-years-human-experimentation-america-tuskegee-study
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3561468?origin=crossref&seq=1

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Music: Lee Rosevere