More than Fact and Fiction: Cultural Memory and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Hastings Center Report 31 (5):22-28 (2001)
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is surrounded by illuminating misconceptions—myths that cannot be blithely dismissed because they actually provide some insight into the significance of the study. One of those is that the men were deliberately infected with syphilis; another is that they obtained no treatment for the disease. Some other errors are alleged in two recent articles about the study, but these articles themselves create their own fictions.

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