Tuskegee syphilis project produced legacy of suspicion that still causes fear when blacks make health decisions. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | August 20, 1993| | Copyright 
    BALTIMORE _ William Mason is suspicious of doctors and medicines and government health programs, even now when he desperately needs them. As he considers why, his reason settles on a name that has lurked in his mind for 15 or 20 years. 
    Tuskegee. 
    In one word, all the proof in the world. 
    It is a word that resonates fearfully in black communities throughout America when critical health-care decisions are made. Often they are life and death decisions. 
    Tuskegee was the rural Alabama town where the government lied to 400 black men who were sick with syphilis. It told ...

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