Tuskeegee

Tuskegee Syphilis Study


Nneka Taylor


California State University, East Bay

















History

In 1932 the aluminum Department of Health, The Tuskegee Institute, white doctors and Macon County agreed to study untreated syphilis. The Alabama Department of Health added the stipulation that some intervention must be provided. During that time the interposition was a conclave of neoarsphenamine and mercury. The study subjects who were 400 black men of at least(prenominal) 25 years in age and had the disease for five-spot years or longer. They were to be comp ard to an Olso study that was d mavin on whites; the initial study was projected to last approximately 6 to 12 months. The study was changed to continue to the study the men until they died and an surplus 200 men were added to the study that were not infect with the disease. The jut was to use the information obtained from the study to gain funding for treatment of syphilis which is a venereal disease (McQuen, 1998).

Syphilis is caused by a bacterium, a spirochete that which lives only in universe and is almost always transmitted from one person to another(prenominal) by intimate sexual activity (Gray, 2002, p. 37).



A large(predicate) woman can also transfer the disease to her unhatched child, who can be born with birth defects, such as, beingness born deaf, blind, mentally retarded or other disorders or deformities. The disease syphilis has three stages.

The first stage, starts between 10 to ninety days after being infected. Since there is usually no pain, often times, the person infected with syphilis doesnt even know and the chancre will disappear, approximately thirty to 40 days later (Gray, 2002). The second stage starts approximately one week after the chancre sore disappears and may last for some(prenominal) weeks. There are also a few infected people who have none or mild symptoms of a rash, hair loss or headaches. Open ulcers during this stage are highly infectious to other people (Gray, 2002). The third...If you want to hold out a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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