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Documents on the origin and development of the Tuskegee syphilis study

The USPHS is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS and its divisions, including NIH, take very seriously our responsibility to ensure the ethical conduct of the studies we support. Additionally, HHS established the Office for Human Research Protections to provide leadership in the protection of the rights, welfare, and wellbeing of those involved in HHS-conducted or -supported human research. HHS and its divisions have built mechanisms into our review, funding, and management of projects to ensure that research participants are protected and that a study like the USPHS Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee will never happen again.

Collection:
Archives & Personal Papers Collections
Creator(s):
United States. Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel
Publication:
Produced: 1921-1973
Language(s):
English
Format:
Mixed material
Subject(s):
Black or African American
Human Experimentation
Public Health
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Syphilis
Backus, R.C.
Butler, Broadus N.
Eagle, Jacqueline
Lee, Bernice
Rawles, Robert
Alabama
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Abstract:
Copies of articles, reports and correspondence compiled for the 1972-1973 ad hoc advisory panel commissioned to investigate the United States Public Health Service Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male at Tuskegee and Macon County, Alabama.
Copyright:
Copyright status is unknown. Archival collections often contain mixed copyrights; while NLM is the owner of the physical items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. It is the user's responsibility to research and understand any applicable copyright and re-publication rights not allowed by fair use. NLM does not grant permissions to publish. Material from the Fisk University Archives may only be reproduced with the written permission of their librarian; all images courtesy Fisk University, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, Special Collections, Julius Rosenwald Fund Archives. The dissertation by Mrs. Myrtle Winters and the manuscript by Dr. Leonard J. Goldwater may only be reproduced with their permission.
Provenance:
Gift, Dr. R.C. Backus, Executive Secretary, Tuskegee Syphilis Ad Hoc Advisory Panel, 1973. Accession #162.
NLM Unique ID:
2934097R (See catalog record)
Finding Aid:
https://findingaids.nlm.nih.gov/repositories/ammp/resources/2934097r
Permanent Link:
https://resource.nlm.nih.gov/2934097R
Note(s):
The entire collection may not be available in NLM Digital Collections; see the finding aid for the complete collection description and inventory.