Tuskegee Syphilis Study - First, Do No Harm | 1
American Scandal
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The Rosenwald Fund and the Negro Syphilis Treatment Programme
Doctors know that many black people suffer from syphilis, but do they really know the effects of the disease on blacks specifically? Many have theorized that syphilis affects blacks differently than it does whites, but no one's ever actually proved it. Macon county has the highest prevalence of syphilis in the south. Clark wonders what would happen if the p h s decided to focus on the ones who weren't treated? Could they be useful to understanding more about the disease? Now he's not a monster. Would he prefer to treat the syphylitic blacks? Of course he would. But if the rosenwald fund won't pay for it, that means there's no money to
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