How to bring more Black Americans into clinical research: Address the root causes of medical skepticism
Real progress in health inequities requires meeting communities where they are and addressing the root causes of medical skepticism.
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Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Medical exploitation of Black people in America goes far beyond the cells stolen from Henrietta Lacks that produced modern day miracles
Medical exploitation is an often overlooked part of Black history and partly explains the mistrust that members of the Black community have for the medical industry.
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Peter Buxtun: US government employee who exposed racist and unethical Tuskegee syphilis study
UC Law San Francisco In 1965 Peter Buxtun had just started working as a contact tracer with the Public Health Service (PHS) in San Francisco when he overheard colleagues talking about a syphilis study …
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Remembering the Tuskegee experiment: when rural Alabama Black men were intentionally exposed to syphilis with no treatment
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is a shameful reminder of what science without ethics can lead to. Starting in the early 1930s, this experiment conducted by the Public Health Service (PHS), the precursor …
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Peter Buxtun, whistleblower who exposed America’s biggest medical research scandal – obituary
a 40-year federal experiment conducted on 399 black men with syphilis to see what would happen if the disease were left untreated. “The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male …
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Peter Buxtun, whistleblower who compared Tuskegee syphilis study to Nazi atrocities, dies at 86
What he heard alarmed him: Working with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, the government had recruited 399 Black men who had contracted syphilis. Although antibiotics became available in the …
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Peter Buxtun, Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower, dies at 86
Peter Buxtun, a whistleblower who exposed and helped end the Tuskegee syphilis study, a four-decade experiment in which the U.S. Public Health Service used hundreds of Black men as human guinea …
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Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86
But hardly anyone had raised any concerns about how the experiment was being conducted … his complaints and his call for the men in Tuskegee to be treated. He left the U.S. Public Health …
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