Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, New and Expanded Edition
The New York Times Book ReviewAs an authentic, exquisitely detailed case study of the consequences of racism in American life, this book should be read by everyone who worries about the racial meanings of government policy and social practice in the United States.The Washington Post Book WorldThis is a valuable, superbly researched, fair-minded, profoundly troubling, and clearly written book.C. Vann Woodward Author ofThe Strange Career of Jim Crow Bad Bloodis an important book, an authentic and appalling study of how the educated deliberately deceived and betrayed the uneducated in our own times through a government agency."Benjaminl Hooks Executive Director, National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeopleBad Bloodis a shocking and bold report of scientific cruelty and moral idiocy...The moral and ethical questions this book raises come into sharp focus and are compelling.James T. Patterson Author ofThe Dread Disease: Cancer&Modern American CultureBy eschewing sensationalism, Jones offers a compelling narrative that enhances our understanding of race relations in the twentieth-century South, of professionalism in medicine, and of American liberalism.Bad Blooddeserves to win a prize.