Friday, October 1, 2010

Tuskegee experiment remix

Today’s Washington Post storyabout syphilis testing on Guatemalans during the 1940s recalls another dark chapter in medical history: the Tuskegee experiment, in which some black men were intentionally denied treatment so the disease’s impact could be studied. Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services expands, Kathleen Sebelius apologized for the actions of the U.S. Public Health Service. The experiment of the U.S. government, which lasted from 1946 to 1948 funding, was discovered by the historians of the healing of Wellesley College. Presumably this was done the test, when penicillin, while relatively new, could prevent infection of diseases intimately. The investigation came without notification utility, and was dark for monitoring decades.
The researcher who led the work in Guatemala, also expressed its concern about the experience of barbarism in this country from Tuskegee, where from 1932 to 1972 scientists monitoring group 600 Blacks in Alabama, had syphilis, but do not know, but after the treatment of charity.
The United States apologized today for the incident, which involved the U.S. Public Health Service and the National Institutes of Health. Several books on the Tuskegee experiment are available if you want to read the books here are few of them: “Bad Blood” by James H. Jones, “Medical Apartheid” by Harriet A. Washington, and “Examining Tuskegee” by Susan M. Reverby.

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