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Title: Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men
Citation Type: Miscellaneous
Publication Year: 2017
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Abstract: For forty years, the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male passively monitored hundreds of adult black males with syphilis despite the availability of effective treatment. The studys methods have become synonymous with exploitation and mistreatment by the medical profession. We find that the disclosure of the study in 1972 is correlated with increases in medical mistrust and mortality and decreases in both outpatient and inpatient physician interactions for older black men. Our estimates imply life expectancy at age 45 for black men fell by up to 1.5 years in response to the disclosure, accounting for approximately 35% of the 1980 life expectancy gap between black and white men and 25% of the gap between black men and women.
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Authors: Alsan, Marcella; Wanamaker, Marianne
Publisher: Stanford University
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Gender, Health, Race and Ethnicity
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