The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis (TSUS) is an important platform to examine issues of race in medicine and research. The TSUS was the 1932-1972 U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) study in rural Alabama. Two groups of black men were followed to autopsy—approximately 400 syphilitics found untreated and a comparable group of approximately 200 presumably [...]
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