Tuskeege
Title: Tuskeege
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Tuskeege
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. Informed that they were being
treated for “bad blood,” their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all.
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out orders, mere cogs in the wheel of the PHS bureaucracy, exempt from personal
responsibility.
The study's other justification—for the greater good of science—is equally stupid.
Now my in opinion, Clinton said it best when he said: “The United States government did
something that was wrong—deeply, profoundly, morally wrong. It was an outrage to our
commitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens. . . . clearly racist.” May 16,
1997.
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