THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS EXPERIMENT

The Tuskegee syphilis experiment

The Tuskegee syphilis experiment

Introduction

In the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in untreated African-American men is the longest nontherapeutic experiment on human beings in medical history, as noted by (Mckissack 2005). Launched in 1932, the United States Public Health Service (USPHS), the study was ostensibly designed to determine the natural untreated latent syphilis in some 400 African-American men in Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama.

Discussion

The study subjects, each of whom had syphilis, when they were enrolled in the study, in contrast to the "urban myth" that holds "the black men in Alabama were injected with the virus that causes ...