The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment - Book Titled "Bad Blood" by James H. Jones
READ IT-----It's Horrifying!!!!!!!
A simple, quick broken down synopsis of the chapters...
Chapter 1---
In the early 1900 on through until around 1960 an experiment was being conducted among ALL black persons within a particular area of the United States. According to researchers and medIcal specialists...these people "volunteered" for the experiment KNOWING what the outcome could be. If you are unsure what Syphilis is...I highly recommend googling it. The experiment measured the affects UNTREATED Syphilis had on people. The controversy came because the subjects were all black and there was significant reason to believe that they had no idea what they were signing up for. That there were certain elements left out when told what the experiment would involve. And that certain treatments were left out like penicillin.
Chapter 2---
If we look to the past...we see that the black race was dicriminated against in far more ways than one might believe. Medical specialists thought that black people were more prone to disease and were medically inferior to whites. Lured in by the physical and mental differences that were believed to be present (and in some cases are present)...physicians argued a case for why the health of blacks should be considered separately from whites. Racial medicine is what was conceived by some, fueled by racial prejudices. There was a belief that negros were far more sexually and emotionally aggressive and uninhibited. The quote from one doctor stated "The negro is particularly unfortunate-he has not only the inherent frailties of his nature to war against; instincts, passions and appetites, but also those nocuous, seductive, destroying influences that emanate from free institutions in a country of civil liberty" Soon....there was a believe that the black race had become a "Notoriously Syphilis-Soaked Race." With the amazing belief that around 95 percent of the black population at some time in their lives contracted syphilis. Not much was thought about the environmental conditions that blacks lived in or the socio-economic problems they faced and the conditions in which they were forced to live in.
More as i read the chapters....
READ IT-----It's Horrifying!!!!!!!
A simple, quick broken down synopsis of the chapters...
Chapter 1---
In the early 1900 on through until around 1960 an experiment was being conducted among ALL black persons within a particular area of the United States. According to researchers and medIcal specialists...these people "volunteered" for the experiment KNOWING what the outcome could be. If you are unsure what Syphilis is...I highly recommend googling it. The experiment measured the affects UNTREATED Syphilis had on people. The controversy came because the subjects were all black and there was significant reason to believe that they had no idea what they were signing up for. That there were certain elements left out when told what the experiment would involve. And that certain treatments were left out like penicillin.
Chapter 2---
If we look to the past...we see that the black race was dicriminated against in far more ways than one might believe. Medical specialists thought that black people were more prone to disease and were medically inferior to whites. Lured in by the physical and mental differences that were believed to be present (and in some cases are present)...physicians argued a case for why the health of blacks should be considered separately from whites. Racial medicine is what was conceived by some, fueled by racial prejudices. There was a belief that negros were far more sexually and emotionally aggressive and uninhibited. The quote from one doctor stated "The negro is particularly unfortunate-he has not only the inherent frailties of his nature to war against; instincts, passions and appetites, but also those nocuous, seductive, destroying influences that emanate from free institutions in a country of civil liberty" Soon....there was a believe that the black race had become a "Notoriously Syphilis-Soaked Race." With the amazing belief that around 95 percent of the black population at some time in their lives contracted syphilis. Not much was thought about the environmental conditions that blacks lived in or the socio-economic problems they faced and the conditions in which they were forced to live in.
More as i read the chapters....
sanguine:
well you better get your strength up....