Racism in Medicine: The Tuskegee Atrocity

America Did What?! In 1932, the United States Public Health Service embarked on the Tuskegee Study, or more aptly the Tuskegee Atrocity, which studied the progression of tertiary syphilis in untreated, unknowing, and unwilling Black men sharecroppers in Macon County. Since the study was exposed on July 24, 1972 the United States has characterized the events as a simple science experiment gone wrong. In actuality, what happened to the 600 victims of the study, their partners, and offspring was human rights atrocity by design. We leave you with the end of America Did What?!'s first season with a connection to the modern day distrust between the public and the United States medical establishment.

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