opinion
WE’RE MOVING BACKWARD
A half-century since the public learned of the U.S. government’s barbaric treatment of Black men with syphilis, racial disparities in medicine remain alarmingly pronounced.
Susan M. Reverby is a medical historian and the author of Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and its Legacy who served on the Legacy Committee that successfully lobbied for the federal apology in 1997.
A half-century since the public learned of the U.S. government’s barbaric treatment of Black men with syphilis, racial disparities in medicine remain alarmingly pronounced.