Our history: keeping it alive, continued. "On July 25, 1972, the New York Times reported that US Public Health Service researchers had been carrying out a four-decade long study on close to 400 black men in Macon County, Alabama. The men were left untreated for syphilis despite the fact that penicillin was available in the 1940s. The disease was allowed to pass to their partners and children. Many died from complications related to this treatable disease. The sacrifices of these men and their families spurred the creation of informed consent policies and bioethical codes, but violations of human rights persist. Several years before the Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed, members of the Black Panther Party spoke powerfully against medical abuses of poor and black people. Yesterday, Alondra Nelson and Fred Gray (attorney for the Montgomery Bus Boycott and, later, for the men abused in the Tuskegee syphilis study) spoke with the Spirit of Black America radio about this important anniversary:"
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 10:25:20 +0000
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