Tuskegee syphilis experiment

I couldn't believe it when I read this.

No doubt many of you in the US are already aware of the-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment


The Tuskegee syphilis experiment (/tʌsˈkiːɡiː/)[1] was an infamous clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in rural African American men who thought they were receiving free health care from the U.S. government.[1]

The Public Health Service started working with the Tuskegee Institute in 1932. Investigators enrolled in the study a total of 600 impoverished sharecroppers from Macon County, Alabama. 399 of those men had previously contracted syphilis before the study began, and 201[2] did not have the disease. The men were given free medical care, meals, and free burial insurance, for participating in the study. They were never told they had syphilis, nor were they ever treated for it.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, the men were told they were being treated for "bad blood", a local term for various illnesses that include syphilis, anemia, and fatigue.



By 1947, penicillin had become the standard treatment for syphilis. Choices available to the doctors involved in the study might have included treating all syphilitic subjects and closing the study, or splitting off a control group for testing with penicillin. Instead, the Tuskegee scientists continued the study without treating any participants and withholding penicillin and information about it from the patients. In addition, scientists prevented participants from accessing syphilis treatment programs available to others in the area.[5] The victims of the study included numerous men who died of syphilis, wives who contracted the disease, and children born with congenital syphilis.

 

Yes, and we also locked up the Japanese during WW2! Lets hope history does not repeat itself in these areas!

GG

 

I took a Coursera class recently on research for health practitioners, and that case was mentioned, along with a couple others. It started prior to there being any regulations on trials using human subjects, which came along after WWII in reaction to the experimentation that had been performed by the Nazis.

So at that point (1946 or 1948?), informed consent was required, and the well-being of the patient should have been the primary concern. There have been more recent nasty trials, but the Tuskegee one stands out because it was conducted by the American government and it was killing American citizens by withholding treatment or even a diagnosis in some cases.

President Clinton issued an apology, and at some point reparations were made on behalf of the victims. However, it's still an unpleasant reminder of how unethically people can behave if they are allowed to do so. One commonality in the unethical trials was that it took some mainstream media and widespread outrage to force the studies to halt.

 

Dugway proving ground experiment first stop lake Tahoe/incline village

 

Karina Hansen
http://justiceforkarina.webs.com/apps/blog/show/42622428-skjoldans-letter-to-71-comitee
See also post 31, http://forums.phoenixrising.me/inde...el-hope-to-die-at-75.32648/page-2#post-504426, especially reference 3 (post 24) http://www.mecfsforums.com/index.php/topic,19289.15.html
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/inde...-from-rebecca-hansen.29011/page-2#post-508084, post #21

US medical research on children who are wards of the state
http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/ju...children-seized-by-child-protection-services/

Cervical cancer screening trials in India spark controversy
http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g3038

GSK fined over vaccine trials; 14 babies reported dead
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/88922/gsk-lab-fined-$1m-over-tests-that-killed-14--babies

Unethical human experimentation in the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States

Human experimentation in North Korea / Camp 22
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_North_Korea

Medical experimentation in Africa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_experimentation_in_Africa

Canada's nutrition experiments on First Nations
http://midislandnews.com/canadas-nutrition-experiments-on-first-nations-1942-1952

Vipeholm experiments, Sweden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipeholm_experiments

Compulsory sterilization, Worldwide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization

Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_laboratory_of_the_Soviet_secret_services

Japan - Unit 731 / the Anti-Epidemic Water Supply and Purification Bureau
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-439776/Doctors-Depravity.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

 

I can remember when I was about 13 we watched a film in health class. It was about salmonella, and was filmed in military barracks. It showed food prep in the kitchen, food being served to the soldiers, soldiers eating in the cafeteria, and then later them all running to the bathroom to get sick. It was not recreated. I suddenly realized that the military had used these poor soldiers as lab rats. I was pretty disgusted with the military at that moment. STILL AM.

I feel the world is ruled by psychopaths and sociopaths. !!!

 

http://biomedicalmecfs.blogspot.com/2011/02/cheaper-than-chimpanzees-experimenting.html

 

Very much worth reading.