Tuskegee Experiments, 1932-1972

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This research paper discusses the Tuskegee medical experiments which were conducted by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) between 1932 and 1972 on 399 African-American adult male subjects who were diagnosed as having late stage syphilis.

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"Tuskegee Experiments
This research paper discusses the Tuskegee medical experiments which were conducted by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) between 1932 and 1972 on 399 African-American adult male subjects who were diagnosed as having late stage syphilis. Its thesis is that the Tuskegee experiments were unjustified on moral and ethical grounds. They together with many other examples of scientific experiments in which human beings have been used as unwitting guinea pigs in the twentieth century stand as warnings of the misguided, immoral, racist and even genocidal ends which scientific research sometimes serves.


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Origins. PHS was founded in 1912. It was an outgrowth of the predominantly white, middle class Progressive movement for..."

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