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| Barborito's Journal Of References #6 - Human Experimentation by Senor Barborito 03/18/2003, 12:29pm PST | ||||
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| Key Words: US USA United States PHS Public Health Service Surgeon General Syphilis Tuskegee Experiment
Link: Using Black People With Syphilis As Guinea Pigs Synopsis: 400 illiterate black men were manipulated into being denied syphilis treatment by the Public Health Service and Surgeon General in order to study the longterm effects of syphilis on black people. Key Quotes: "For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. 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." "The study was meant to discover how syphilis affected blacks as opposed to whites—the theory being that whites experienced more neurological complications from syphilis, whereas blacks were more susceptible to cardiovascular damage. How this knowledge would have changed clinical treatment of syphilis is uncertain." "By the end of the experiment, 28 of the men had died directly of syphilis, 100 were dead of related complications, 40 of their wives had been infected, and 19 of their children had been born with congenital syphilis." "As a doctor explained, “If the colored population becomes aware that accepting free hospital care means a post-mortem, every darky will leave Macon County...†Even the Surgeon General of the United States participated in enticing the men to remain in the experiment, sending them certificates of appreciation after 25 years in the study." Source: Infoplease which drew on the book Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment by James H. Jones Spotted: 3/18/03 Author: Borgna Brunner --SB |
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Barborito's Journal Of References #6 - Human Experimentation by 03/18/2003, 12:29pm PST  Please Read This One, BTW. Absolutely Horrifying. -NT- NT by 03/18/2003, 12:30pm PST |
