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Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

The American Historical Review · 1982 · Vol. 87(2) · pp. 558–558

Abstract

An account of the experiment conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service describes how medical treatment was withheld from Black sharecroppers infected with syphilis

Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment Historical Medical Research and TreatmentsSyphilisPublic healthMedicineService (business)Political scienceFamily medicineBusinessHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV)NursingMarketing

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