http://www.metafilter.com/tags/tuskeegee Posts tagged with 'tuskeegee' at MetaFilter. Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:35:25 -0800 Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:35:25 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/18686/ From NPR (The MetaFilter giveth, the MetaFilter taketh away...) <a href="http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/jul/tuskegee/index.html">Remembering Tuskegee</a> <br>600 low-income African-American males, 400 infected with syphilis are monitored for 40 years. Even though a proven cure (penicillin) became available in the 1950s, the study continues until 1972 with participants denied treatment. Perhaps as many as 100 died of syphilis during the study (Allen, 1978). <a href="http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/assignments/experiment/tuskegee.html">Additional resources.</a><br><br>Thirty years ago is not that long a time. tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.18686 Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:35:25 -0800 africanamerican epidemic experiments npr syphilis tuskeegee y2karl