The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, also known as the Tuskegee Experiment, remains one of the most egregious ethical failures in U.S. medical history. From 1932 to 1972, the Public Health Service recruited 600 African American men in Macon County, Alabama, promising free healthcare for “bad blood” while deliberately withholding treatment—even after penicillin became widely available—to observe […]