Tuskegee syphilis study, where generations of Black men in Alabama were exploited as part of experiment, part of new book

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — A decades-long experiment that took place in Alabama and became one of the worst examples of medical malfeasance in history, will be explored in a new book.

"Infected: How Politics, Power, and Privilege Use Science Against the World’s Most Vulnerable," a new book by Boston University professor Muhammad Zaman, will be released in November through New Press.

Zaman, a biomedical engineering professor at BU, previously wrote "We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and Forcibly Displaced," on the medical shortfalls offered to migrant communities. In "Infected," Zaman explores how medical research has been exploited over the years to push vulnerable groups further into the margins of society.

governments and groups around the world have used research on infectious diseas