Racism in American Medicine

The Ongoing Significance of Racism in American Medicine
Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World
Tina K. Saks
February 24th, 2019

“You can’t get a shot. I’ve never gotten a shot by a white person ever . . . they had me terrified [of being treated by a white doctor].” Her family’s concerns stemmed from their understanding that their great-grandfather died as a result of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. The US Public Health Service began the “Study of Syphilis in the Untreated Negro Male” in 1932.”