The Tuskegee Experiment: Crash Course Black American History #29 (Video)
Subject
Black History, Public Health, Tuskegee Experiment
Description
From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention operated an extremely unethical medical experiment on the effects of outcomes of untreated syphilis. Hundreds of poor Black men from Macon County, Alabama, were enrolled in the study, and treatment for syphilis was withheld from them. Even after antibiotics became available to cure syphilis, these men were left to suffer from the disease and expose their families to syphilis. Today we’re learning about the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, a shameful example of racism in American medicine and a tragedy that still impacts how many Black Americans think about healthcare today.
Creator
CrashCourse
Source
Publisher
youtube.com
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