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This 5 page paper discusses the infamous medical study conducted on African-American men from 1932-1972 at Tuskegee Institute. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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and immoral. Discussion The Tuskegee experiment is now so infamous that it has collected a number of attributes that are untrue. Many sources say the men were not deliberately infected;
nor was treatment withheld but the ethics of the experiment are still extremely questionable. In 1932, the U.S. government "promised 399 African American men free treatment for Bad Blood, a
euphemism for syphilis, which was epidemic in Macon County, Alabama. All of the men were residents of Macon County; all were poor and uneducated, and none of them received the
promised treatment" (Walker, 2009, p. 5). Instead, the men were "unwitting participants" in a government study that was titled ""The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male"; a
study which went on four nearly 40 years and had "nothing to do with treatment" (Walker, 2009, p. 5). There were no new drugs tested; older treatments were not discussed,
improved or discarded for that matter, and "when a definitive treatment for syphilis became available in 1942, it was withheld" (Walker, 2009, p. 5). Ethics seems to have taken a
beating in this study. Any ethical guidelines that were in place at the beginning were limited, and they deteriorated rapidly (Walker, 2009). Participants were not informed about the true nature
of the study, and "deception was used throughout" (Walker, 2009, p. 5). One survivor said, "I dont know what they used us for. I aint never understood the study" (Walker,
2009, p. 5). Clearly, no such thing as "informed consent" was used with these participants. In addition, Walker says that they were subtly coerced to take part. The study began
in 1932, and the country was in the grip of the Great Depression, when unemployment was as high as 30% at times. The South was particularly hard hit, and African-Americans
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