Documents on the origin and development of the Tuskegee syphilis study 1921-1973

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Documents on the origin and development of the Tuskegee syphilis study 1921-1973

http://oculus.nlm.nih.gov/tuskegee264

Copies of articles, reports and correspondence compiled for the ad hoc advisory panel commissioned to investigate the PHS's Tuskegee syphilis study in 1973.

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History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

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Beginning in 1932, the Public Health Service began a study of the effects of untreated syphilis on black men in Macon County, Alabama. On August 24, 1972 Merlin K. DuVal, M.D., Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, announced the appointment of an ad hoc panel headed by Broadus N. Butler, president of Dillard University, to investigate the study. The panel was empowered to explore whether the study was justified, whether it shou...

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