Tuskegee Syphillis Experiment
Wally Zancan ARSC Pre-Lab II Wednesday 5:00PM September 10, 2003 TUSKEGEE SYPHILLIS EXPERIMENT During the years of 1932 through 1972, doctors from the United States Department of Public Health conducted a study on 399 poor, black sharecroppers from Macon County, Alabama, who were all infected with the incurable disease, syphilis, and 201 men of similar backgrounds who were uninfected. ... The men were given free meals, free medical exams, and free burial insurance for cooperating and partaking in the experiment. [Brown][NPR][Virginia] This experiment done by the physicians at the Department of Public Health is a horrifying example of bad science. The fact that doctors, whose sole job it is to heal and revitalize patients, allowed humans to slowly die, deteriorate, and spread a deadly disease all for some scientific information shocked people all over the world when news broke out of the experiment in 1972 [NPR].