Aftermath of The Tuskegee Experiment
The United States has a unique cultural history involving African Americans and their reticence to be involved with the medical system. It has a lot to do with something that is commonly called, "The Tuskegee Experiment," run by the US Public Health Service. If you don't know about it already, at the historic black Tuskegee University in 1932 they recruited 600 black sharecroppers from Macon Alabama, 399 of which had latent syphilis, and 201 were the control group. The doctors did not actually treat them for their STD, the doctors allowed the syphilis to run unchecked, and allowed it to spread to their wives, their children, and when their children grew up, they allowed the disease to spread to their husbands and wives, and to their children as well. The doctors claimed that they were providing free medical care and free burials for the black sharecroppers and their families, but only placebos were ever offered, even when penicillin came out an...