Minority Health and Health Equity Archive
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Welcome to the Minority Health and Health Equity Archive (MHHEA), an electronic archive for digital resource materials in the fields of minority health and health disparities research and policy. It is offered as a no-charge resource to the public, academic scholars and health science researchers interested in the elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities.
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Item The ‘Tuskegee Study’ of syphilis: Analysis of moral versus methodologic aspects(1978) BENEDEK, TThe background and course of the prospective investigation of the “natural history” of syphilis which was conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service in Macon County, Alabama from 1932 to 1972 (the “Tuskegee Study”) is reviewed. Unpublished correspondence is cited to illustrate some of the attitudes and problems of the investigators. The relevance of certain other studies of syphilis to the interpretation of the Tuskegee data which were not discussed by the investigators is shown. The study is analyzed by the application of some general principles of scientific investigation set forth at the beginning of the article.Item Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study(1978) Brandt, Allan M.In 1932 the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) initiated an experiment in Macon County, Alabama, to determine the natural course of untreated, latent syphilis in black males. The test comprised 400 syphilitic men, as well as 200 uninfected men who served as controls. The first published report of the study appeared in 1936 with subsequent papers issued every four to six years, through the 1960s. When penicillin became widely available by the early 1950s as the preferred treatment for syphilis, the men did not receive therapy. In fact on several occasions, the USPHS actually sought to prevent treatment. Moreover, a committee at the federally operated Center for Disease Control decided in 1969 that the study should be continued. Only in 1972, when accounts of the study first appeared in the national press, did the Department of Health, Education and Welfare halt the experiment.Item Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: unidentified male(1932) UNSPECIFIEDunidentified male (National Archives, Atlanta, GA)Item Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: unidentified subject, small boy and nurse Rivers in cotton field [in Bad Blood](1932) UNSPECIFIEDunidentified subject, small boy and nurse Rivers in cotton field [in Bad Blood] National Archive, Atlanta, GAItem Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: Nurse Eunice Rivers filling out paper work(1932) UNSPECIFIEDNurse Eunice Rivers filling out paper work (National Archives, Atlanta, GA)Item Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: unidentified male(1932) UNSPECIFIEDunidentified male (National Archives, Atlanta, GA)Item Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: Nurse Eunice Rivers and unidentified subject in cotton field(1932) UNSPECIFIEDNurse Eunice Rivers and unidentified subject in cotton field (National Archives, Atlanta, GA)Item Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: Nurse Rivers and four unidentified subjects(1932) UNSPECIFIEDLeft: Nurse Rivers and four unidentified subjects (National Archives, Atlanta, GA)Item Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: Blood test by Mr. William Bouie and unidentified woman(1932) UNSPECIFIEDBlood test by Mr. William Bouie and unidentified woman (National Archives, Atlanta, GA)Item Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pictures: William Bouie, Unidentified subject, and Dr. David Albritton(1932) UNSPECIFIEDLeft: William Bouie, Unidentified subject, and Dr. David Albritton (National Archives, Atlanta, GA)