T he Tuskegee Syphilis Study is a shameful reminder of what science without ethics can lead to. Starting in the early 1930s, this experiment conducted by the Public Health Service (PHS), the ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. William Carter Jenkins, a government epidemiologist who tried to call attention to and end the unethical Tuskegee Syphilis Study, died February ...

The unethical experiments were originally brought to light in the fall of 2010 by Wellesley College historian Susan Reverby as she was looking into archived documents on the Tuskegee syphilis study—a ...

The U.S. Public Health Service called it “The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.” The world would soon come to know it simply as the “Tuskegee Study” — one of the ...

In a study, Alsan found that, decades later, the legacy of the Tuskegee syphilis study had eroded trust, lowered health care utilization, and increased mortality among Black men. Her work also ...