That’s even though there were working, proven treatments developed against syphilis during the 40 years that the study, known as the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male ...

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 ...

Few events signify science gone awry more than the Tuskegee experiments. Started in 1932 to study the effects of untreated syphilis in 399 black men, the scientific rationale for the work became ...