The terrible Tuskege experiment against syphilis

The Tuskegee experiment is one of the most enlightening evidence that human cruelty has no limits.This clinical study appears between 1932 and 1972 was honored to the title "Turk's head." The story you are going to read It will seem like science fiction but it is not.Of course it is not.

The Tuskegee experiment: the inoculation of syphilis in an illiterate population of Alabama

For most of the century XX, the black population remained in a situation of semi-slavery.They were the ones who performed the worst jobs, had no right to education and were completely marginalized from Caucasian citizenship.

Therefore, Dr.Taliaferro, creator of the experiment, did not have no scruple when recruiting more than half a thousand men to perform what was supposed to be a chance to get r free health. All these patients were never informed that they were undergoing an experiment to find out if syphilis medications (very aggressive at that time) were really useful or if their effects secondary schools outweighed their benefits .

For this, he chose 400 people from the black population already sick with syphilis, but he needed a control group so he chose another 200 with the promise of offering them health free.It goes without saying that all these men signed an involuntary consent since none of them knew how to read.

Those infected did not even know they had syphilis, but were made to believe they had "bad blood", colloquial title that was used in Alabama among illiterate citizens to refer to some diseases such as anemia or syphilis due to ignorance of medical terms and etymology.

The development of the experiment and the beginning of the end of it to experimentation with humans without informed consent

During the first decade, the experiments took place normally, leaving several dead and new infected on the way.The most cruel milestone came with the discovery of penicillin , since although it became the best treatment against syphilis, medical staff continued to perform experiments with another medication that brought serious side effects, including multi-organ failure .In fact, patients were advised to that they undergo penicillin treatments to have a free way to experiment with them.

In 1972 it came to an end due to a leak of the press.By that time, the Tuskegee experiment had caused the death of 28 people with syphilis, 100 medical complications linked to treatments, 40 women infected (were previously healthy) and 20 unborn children with the disease.

Possibly, this was the most experiment terrible realized in humans in peacetime in the twentieth century.It was labeled "the most infamous biomedical research in the history of the United States" .In 1979 the Belmont report appeared as well as the creation of a new advice that limited the possibilities of experimentation with humans.

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