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Effects Of The Tuskegee Experiment On The Creation Of Man-Made Medicine

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For many years, the creation of man-made medicine has gone through many trial and error, progress and complication. One major way in which medicine has thrived was through the form of experiments, some on animals, plants and humans. Unfortunately, certain medical experiments have had drastic consequences. The Tuskegee Experiment was a medical experiment used to study the long-term effects of syphilis of not treated. In 1932, the Public Health Service together with the Tuskegee Institute, began an experiment to record the long-term effects of syphilis which also became a strict medical treatment programs for blacks. It was called the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.” Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease can be …show more content…

The final stage, also known as "late" syphilis, begins 3 or more years after infection. About 40 percent of the infected progress to this stage. At this stage, the person may no longer be contagious, but the bacteria have multiplied and spread throughout the body, damaging the majority of the major organs and nerves within the body.A few years before the Tuskegee Experiment, there was another syphilis experiment that was conducted on the white population to see the long-term effects as well, but because of many people's views syphilis affected African Americans differently than Whites; the theory was that syphilis affected are different in every way, especially their blood, which led researchers to focus on African Americans to see if the disease affected blacks differently than whites. For over 40 years, this experiment was had infected over dozens of African American men had gone untreated, those who were used for the experiment were told that they had ‘bad blood’, and were also not informed of the true nature of the experiment. Those who were chosen for the study received rides to the Tuskegee University Clinic, free meals and medical treatment. To make the ‘story’ more believable, the participants were given ‘placebos’, which were harmless pills used for new testing. When the cure for syphilis was connected to the newfound drug, penicillin in 1945, researchers would not offer the drug to the participants of the

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