Release Date: Feb 22, 1997 Wide
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Produced for the HBO cable network, this docudrama explores the social and ethical issues at the heart of the infamous Tuskegee Study of Untreated Blacks With Syphilis. From 1932 through 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service studied 600 poor African-American sharecroppers in Macon County, AL -- 399 chronic syphilitics and a 201-man healthy control group. Doctors treated the men with placebos, hid the true nature of their research, and withheld penicillin even after it became the standard and
Feb 22, 1997 Wide
Jan 8, 2002
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Well done film ..sad reminder of the injustices done against the African American race in the name of "research". I am thankful Pres. Clinton made a public apology but, it does seem a little late. I suppose better late than never. A must see for all those that want to be informed of the past wrongs of our American
February 20, 2009
This is the story of the nurse who participated in the Tuskegee experiment done in Alabama during WWII. The goverment wanted to repeat a syphilis study that had been done in Oslo during the late 1800s. Back then it was done on white men before a cure was known. This time, they wanted African American subjects because
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