The horror of the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.”
New York Times Historical
The NY Times helped break the story on July 26, 1972. Find it here under “Syphilis Victims in U.S. Study Went Untreated for 40 Years:”
http://www.drew.edu/library/er/new-york-times-historical
Or go right to the article: http://bit.ly/P5pwxN
Medicine, health, and bioethics: Essential Primary Sources
A personal view: 1972 newspaper article: “Survivor of '32 Syphilis Study Recalls a Diagnosis” as well as the Nuremberg Code on Informed Consent.
Reference R724 .M313 2006 or http://bit.ly/S4infV
Source Book in Bioethics: A Documentary History
Read the “Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel.”
Reference R 724 .S599
Encyclopedia of bioethics
For a bigger picture, check under “Minorities as Research Subjects,” “Research, Unethical,” “Informed Consent,” and “Bioethics: African-American Perspectives.”
Reference: QH332 .E52 or http://bit.ly/QDT3Np
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
For an African-American perspective, look here under "Tuskegee" and under “Race and Science.”
http://bit.ly/NkTrnw
Black Studies Center
Find more readings in this expansive collection-- search on “Tuskegee syphilis.”
http://www.drew.edu/library/er/black-studies-center
Encyclopedia of Epidemiology
Horrifyingly, articles with preliminary findings of the Tuskegee study were being published in medical journals all along. The Modern medical perspective:
http://bit.ly/PjkLCx
Encyclopedia of Public Health
The legacy of the Tuskegee ‘experiment’ and long-term institutional racism has a lasting effect in public health and the “African-Americans” community:
http://bit.ly/QyMpNU