Tuskegee Experiment
Abstract The Tuskegee syphilis experiment was an infamous clinical study conducted between 1932-1972 in Macon Country, Alabama by the U.S Public Health Service. The purpose was to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in rural African American men who thought they were receiving free health care from the U.S government; about four hundred African American men were denied. The doctors that were involved in this study had a shifted mindset; they were called “racist monsters”; “for the most part, doctors and civil servants simply did their jobs. Some merely followed orders, others worked for the glory of science” (Heller) The men that were used for the study got advantage of, especially those who lived in a low-income community; they were not purposely injected with the disease, and the discrimination of the poor men throughout the experiment were taking advantage of. Throughout this research paper, I explained the how, the why, the where, the what, and the who in all three appalling studies. The Oslo Study and the Central American Study were a result of the final Tuskegee experiment and it’s purpose, which is known to be well known, the study of the United States is involved enormously.
Immediately when one hears the term “Tuskegee” it should bring in mind of the private, black university that Booker T. Washington found. The university carries a connotation of the famous Tuskegee Experiment that was held for forty-years. This university of higher education for blacks in the South after the Civil War contributes to the study in Alabama, because of the everlasting issue towards impoverished African American as an official group. The research was attempted three times in Oslo, Norway (1890 to 1910), Macon Country, Alabama (1932 to 1972), and in Guatemala (1946 to1948). As the president, while this experiment was taken place, Bill Clinton, “did something that was wrong, deeply, profoundly, morally wrong.”
Immediately when one hears the term “Tuskegee” it should bring in mind of the private, black university that Booker T. Washington found. The university carries a connotation of the famous Tuskegee Experiment that was held for forty-years. This university of higher education for blacks in the South after the Civil War contributes to the study in Alabama, because of the everlasting issue towards impoverished African American as an official group. The research was attempted three times in Oslo, Norway (1890 to 1910), Macon Country, Alabama (1932 to 1972), and in Guatemala (1946 to1948). As the president, while this experiment was taken place, Bill Clinton, “did something that was wrong, deeply, profoundly, morally wrong.”
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