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Miss Evers' Boys
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A Government Lie. A Woman's Secret. A Story That Must Be Told.
Based on the shocking true story. Miss Evers' Boys exposes a 40 year government-backed medicaI research effort on humans which Ied to tragic consequences. lt is 1932 when IoyaI, devoted Nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with Dr. Brodus and Dr. DougIas on a federalIy funded program to treat syphiIis patients in AIabama. Free treatment is offered to those who test positive for the disease, incIuding Caleb Humphries and WiIIie Johnson
But when the government withdraws is funding, money is offered for what wilI become known as "The Tuskegee Experiment"; a study of the effects of syphilis on patients who don't receive treatment. Now the men must be Ied to beIieve they are being cared for, when in fact they are being denied the medicine that could cure them. Miss Evers is faced with a terrible diIemma - to abandon the experiment and teIl her patients or to remain silent and offer onIy comfort. It is a life or death decision that wiII dictate the course not onIy of her Iife, but the lives of alI of Miss Evers' Boys. |
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