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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Suvin1122" data-source="post: 7144486" data-attributes="member: 177083">5. Members of the Tuskegee Study <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/256px-tuskegeegroup.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/256px-tuskegeegroup-tm.jpg?w=300&h=188" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service  (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men (mostly impoverished and  poorly educated share-croppers) in the late stages of syphilis. The  essence was to gather data on the course of the disease when left  untreated.  The researchers understood from the outset that test  subjects would provide most of their useful information in the form of  autopsies, so great pains were taken to insure that subjects didn’t  obtain medical care elsewhere. The program came to an abrupt halt in  1972 when its existence was made public by the Washington Star. It would  be easy to dismiss this as a case of simple racism by a public  institution, but that is not the case: The project was enthusiastically  hosted by the Tuskeegee Institute, a historically black college, and  many key researchers and staff on the project were, themselves, black.</blockquote>

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