Abstract
Over 70 years ago, the U.S. Public Health Service considered ways to improve the health of African Americans in the south. According to Tuskegee Institute (2003) came up with a study of syphilis in Tuskegee, Alabama called the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. The Public Health Service and the Rosenwald fund collaborated in treating these individuals. Subsequently, the treatment program was expanded to include five additional counties: Albemarle County, Virginia; Glynn County, Georgia; Macon County, Alabama; Pitt County, North Carolina; and Tipton County, Tennessee (Jones, 1981). The Public Health Service donated their support of the Tuskegee Institute.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study has become the most transcendental, harm-maker example of racism in the medical field. It is shameful, for in an area as important as the medical one, where lives come and go, issues such as this one should never be taken in consideration by anyone who’s capable of destroying or saving a life. It has been shown through the years that it was an unethical experiment, and it has brought resentments that we still face in this time of life.
It prone many African Americans, who were not aware, to decay their health, and to consequently loose their trust over the health system and organizations through out the United States, and even to the people. Disregarding the lives it took, and many people who suffered from it, the Study made much harm in a social context than any other experiment in the history of medicine. In my point of view, it affected the society in which we live today in the three following features.
First and most important of all. It damaged the trust that many African Americans had toward the health system ...