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oct 21, 1932 - Tuskegee Study

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Enrolled African American men that already had syphilis and denied them treatment to study the effects of syphilis. It raised a lot of ethical concerns about how a medical study should be practiced. The study ends in 1972 (40 years later) after public outcry against the unethical meausres in the study

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oct 21, 1932
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~ 93 years ago