The digital records of The Tuskegee Experiments have been released, reports The Washington Post.
In a news release, the National Library of Medicine says digitizing the documents will “ensure this chapter in history is never repeated and build greater trust in current biomedical research through transparency.”
In 1932, officials from the U.S. Public Health Service recruited 600
impoverished Black men in Macon County, Ala., promising them years of
free medical care, burial insurance and treatment for an ailment known
as “bad blood.”(Source Washington Post story)
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