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Syphilis
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
The Tuskegee syphilis experiment started in 1932 and followed a group of African American sharecroppers. The plan is for this to be a long term experiment, but none of the men are ever told they have syphilis. 28 people die as a direct result of having syphilis during that time; 100 died from complications related to syphilis. 40 of the patient's wives get the disease while 19 children are born with congenital syphilis. And then there is a man who comes along and says, why are we doing this? And he's told that the study has to carry it until all of theMen are dead. At that point, he becomes a whistleblower. It would have
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