What do you think of the US Health Dept injecting syphilis into 400 men without their permission?
The Tuskegee incident is pretty well-known in public health. As far as research goes, this is unethical. Pure and simple. I’m sure we’d all be surprised and shocked at the amount the research that goes on that does not meet the Code of Ethics, and is either directly or indirectly funded by the U.S. Government. I’m not for sure what your question is, other than what do I think of this act by the government. I think it is horrific, inhumane, and a heinous crime. 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. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood,” their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all. The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were
