What was the Tuskegee Study? Why did the poor black sharecroppers who were the subject of the study agree to participate?
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
Answer:
1. Define the Tuskegee Study as a federal program undertaken to determine the impact of untreated syphilis on black men.
2. Explain that the study went on for forty years, and at no point were the men involved treated for their disease or even told what their true condition was.
3. Note that a black nurse was hired to help convince the men that the study was benefitting them. The subjects were also given lunch on examination days and burial after they died.
4. Conclude that the Tuskegee Study reveals the manipulation of poor people of color by the medical community in the mid-twentieth century.
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