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Tuskegee Syphilis StudyAtlas
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The study population included hundreds of men with syphilis and a smaller group of uninfected men used as controls. Some later popular and polemical retellings reframe the study within broader claims about government healthcare or medical conspiracy, which sit alongside official and scholarly accounts.
Open the caseInvolved
person
Allan M. Brandt
document
Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
government agency
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
person
Fred D. Gray
person
James H. Jones
location
Macon County, Alabama
organization
National Archives at Atlanta
person
Susan M. Reverby
organization
Tuskegee Institute
document
Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel Final Report
government agency
U.S. Public Health Service
program
U.S. Public Health Service Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee
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