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A Dictionary of American History
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Tuskegee Syphilis Scandal
Tuskegee Syphilis Scandal From 1932 to 1972, US Public Health Service doctors diagnosed over 500 blacks living near Tuskegee, Ala., as having contracted syphilis, but purposefully kept the patients ignorant of their condition for the sake of conducting a secret, clinical study of the long-term effects of leaving the disease untreated by antibiotics. The experiment ended abruptly when the Washington Star exposed it on 25 July 1972, but by then over 100 of the subjects had died of the disease or related complications. In December 1974, an out-of-court settlement paid $10 million to the study’s 120 survivors, to persons who contracted syphilis from them, and to heirs of the deceased.
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Chicago:
Thomas L. Purvis, "Tuskegee Syphilis Scandal," A Dictionary of American History in A Dictionary of American History (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Reference, 1995), Original Sources, accessed July 13, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=9416EQ7GJ46YS6F.
MLA:
Purvis, Thomas L. "Tuskegee Syphilis Scandal." A Dictionary of American History, in A Dictionary of American History, Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Reference, 1995, Original Sources. 13 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=9416EQ7GJ46YS6F.
Harvard:
Purvis, TL, 'Tuskegee Syphilis Scandal' in A Dictionary of American History. cited in 1995, A Dictionary of American History, Blackwell Reference, Cambridge, Mass.. Original Sources, retrieved 13 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=9416EQ7GJ46YS6F.
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