Susan Reverby is a historian and professor of women's and gender studies at Wellesley College near Boston in Massachusetts. She is an authority on the notorious Tuskegee experiments, during which treatment was withheld from more than 600 African American men with syphilis. Her recent discovery that the US Public Health Service exposed several hundred Guatemalans to the disease in an undocumented research project in 1946-48 led last week to an official apology from the United States to the Guatemalan government and the promise of a full investigation.
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