Tuskegee Experiment
The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on the Tuskegee Experiment based upon previous international study, it will also state the original study and where did it originate, the purpose of the study and the results. It will also state who or what were the principal investigators, the participants (gender, race, age), why and how did this study end.
The original study of the Tuskegee research was a disreputable medical experiment carried out in the United States between 1932 and 1972, in which almost 400 black Americans with syphilis were offered no medical treatment, allowing researchers to see the course of the disease. The events of the Tuskegee research triggered extensive values of legislation, including the National Research Act, and the experiment attracted a great deal of public attention. Many people regard the Tuskegee Experiment as an extremely shameful event in American history, and several organizations including the Centers for Disease Control have extensive archives on the experiment which are available to interested members of the public who want to learn more about it.
According to Daniels, N., Kennedy, B. P., & Kawachi, I. (2007). The original study of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment was an infamous clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972; it originated in the early 1930s with the goal of exploring the effects of unthreaded syphilis in black males in the county of Macon, Alabama. During the beginning of the 1900s Macon County’s population, as a consequence for its poor educational system and the unsafe effects of economic depression, was composed mostly by illiterate farm workers. According to Brandt, A. M. (2010) The U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. It was noted that these men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. They were
The original study of the Tuskegee research was a disreputable medical experiment carried out in the United States between 1932 and 1972, in which almost 400 black Americans with syphilis were offered no medical treatment, allowing researchers to see the course of the disease. The events of the Tuskegee research triggered extensive values of legislation, including the National Research Act, and the experiment attracted a great deal of public attention. Many people regard the Tuskegee Experiment as an extremely shameful event in American history, and several organizations including the Centers for Disease Control have extensive archives on the experiment which are available to interested members of the public who want to learn more about it.
According to Daniels, N., Kennedy, B. P., & Kawachi, I. (2007). The original study of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment was an infamous clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972; it originated in the early 1930s with the goal of exploring the effects of unthreaded syphilis in black males in the county of Macon, Alabama. During the beginning of the 1900s Macon County’s population, as a consequence for its poor educational system and the unsafe effects of economic depression, was composed mostly by illiterate farm workers. According to Brandt, A. M. (2010) The U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. It was noted that these men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. They were
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