An Insiders’ Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men
by
Mr. Fred Gray
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of “the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male.” For the next 40 years—even after the development of penicillin, the cure for syphilis—these men were denied medical care...