Study Debunks That Blacks Are Wary of Medical Research
Submitted by Rupert on December 14, 2005 – 10:53 am |
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Minorities Are Willing to Volunteer but Often Are Not AskedBy Rick Weiss
It is a truism that black people do not trust the medical establishment and are reluctant to volunteer for experiments.
And why should they volunteer, the story goes, given the widely known history of Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute, where for decades doctors withheld medical treatment from several hundred black men with advanced syphilis as part of a sordid federal study?
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