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Tuskegee
[ tuhs-kee-gee ]
noun
- a city in E Alabama: location of Tuskegee Institute.
Example Sentences
This could be in part because medical institutions have a long and fraught history of exploiting Black bodies to “advance” science, from the Tuskegee syphilis study to the doctor who was once known as the “Father of Gynecology” practicing experimental medical procedures on enslaved Black women.
He delves into the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiments on Black men in the 20th century, the abuses against intellectually disabled children at the Willowbrook State School in the early 1970s, and four other shocking cases that reveal not just a stunning failure of ethics but a coordinated determination to silence and discredit the individuals challenging them.
We can think, Tuskegee, that was one hundred years ago.
After Tuskegee, Willowbrook, all those scandals that came out in the early 1970s, there was a big push for a full-blown regulatory system, like you would have in factories or mines.
But Tuskegee is happening in Macon County, Alabama, thousands of miles away.
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