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July 8, 2025 8 mins

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study stands as one of the most egregious medical scandals in U.S. history. Spanning from 1932 to 1972, this study followed 399 Black men in Macon County, Alabama, who were deliberately denied treatment for syphilis in order to observe the disease’s progression. Despite the availability of penicillin in the 1940s, these men were subjected to unethical experimentation, marking a horrific chapter in American medicine that exposed the intersection of racial exploitation, medical malpractice, and the systemic dehumanization of Black Americans.

 

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