Summary Of The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
The article I chose for this learning journal is an article about a study. It is titled: “The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment” by James H. Jones and was published in 2008 as a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Research Ethics.
It explores in detail the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, which is also known as the Tuskegee Study, that took place in the town of Tuskegee, the county seat of Macon County in Alabama, between 1932 and 1972. In a nutshell, this experiment exploited 400 African-American men who had syphilis. The doctors left them untreated, hindered them from accessing any treatment, didn’t provide them with any information about their sickness, and observed the advancement of the disease on each one of them over the years.
As a matter of fact, this experiment used 400 African-American men who belonged to the poorest communities, who were uneducated, chronically unemployed or underemployed, exploited, and discriminated against based on their race and color.
It starts by giving ample description about syphilis which is a highly contagious disease caused by a bacteria, which is acquired through sexual intercourse, kissing, or from a mother to her child during birth. It then moves to describe the three phases of this disease which is lethal in its third advanced …show more content…
It was believed that “blacks… suffer a much higher incidence of cardiovascular syphilis, whereas white were thought to suffer a higher incidence of brain damage and related neurological disease” (Jones, 2008, p.
It explores in detail the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, which is also known as the Tuskegee Study, that took place in the town of Tuskegee, the county seat of Macon County in Alabama, between 1932 and 1972. In a nutshell, this experiment exploited 400 African-American men who had syphilis. The doctors left them untreated, hindered them from accessing any treatment, didn’t provide them with any information about their sickness, and observed the advancement of the disease on each one of them over the years.
As a matter of fact, this experiment used 400 African-American men who belonged to the poorest communities, who were uneducated, chronically unemployed or underemployed, exploited, and discriminated against based on their race and color.
It starts by giving ample description about syphilis which is a highly contagious disease caused by a bacteria, which is acquired through sexual intercourse, kissing, or from a mother to her child during birth. It then moves to describe the three phases of this disease which is lethal in its third advanced …show more content…
It was believed that “blacks… suffer a much higher incidence of cardiovascular syphilis, whereas white were thought to suffer a higher incidence of brain damage and related neurological disease” (Jones, 2008, p.