TUSKEGEE PROJECT

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MY GOALS FOR THE CLASS

• I want the class to learn what syphilis
• How they used humans as test subjects
• Why did they keep information feom the subjects
• How many died during this experiment
• How the negros thought that the government created aids to kill them

Vocabulary words
furthering,frontiers,
physicians,investigation,obtained,procedure,
constitute,ethics,permit,Hippocratic

Some information about the project
For forty years between 1932 and 1972 the U.S Public Health Service.taliaferro Clark was head of the U.S Public Health Service at the outset of the experiment.at the end of the experiment 28 men died directly of syphilis.100 people died of related complications.40 of the wives had been infected.19 of the children born were born with congenital syphilis.

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What it was about
The study was meant to discover how syphilis affected blacks as to whites the theory being that whites experienced more neurological complications from syphilis while blacks were more prone to cardiovascular damage.It took almost forty years before someone involved in the study took look at the end results.reporting that nothing learned will prevent,find,or cure a single case of infectious syphilis.it would not bring them closer to there mission of controlling venereal disease in the United States.

When the experiment was exposed to the media in 1972, news anchor Harry Reasoner described it as an experiment that used human beings as laboratory animals.in a long study of how long it takes syphilis to kill someone.The experiment's name comes from the Tuskegee Institute.the black university founded by Booker T. Washington. Its affiliated hospital lent the PHS its medical facilities for the study, and other predominantly

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I learned a lot from this project.how blacks were discriminated and white people took advantage of them for there own sick ways.how they treated them like animals a lied to them and kept information from them.what I liked from this is that one white man came up and spoke the truth about the nature of these experiments.