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This is a film review on The Deadly Deception. The material presented in the video is well documented. Testimony of survivors, experts in the medical field and civil rights leaders offer a variety of perspectives like medical, legal, and criminal justice from which one can judge the experimentation on the men of Tuskegee, Alabama which was titled “The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.”
The material presented in the video is well documented. Testimony of survivors, experts in the medical field and civil rights leaders offer a variety of perspectives like medical, legal, and criminal justice from which one can judge the experimentation on the men of Tuskegee, Alabama which was titled “The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.” The video provides a sequential account of the government program that was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Public Health and was originally dedicated to the eradication of syphilis. The program, begun in the late twenties, changed its center due to finances and ultimately was transformed from a treatment program to one where the participants turned from being patients to subjects. When the USPHS revealed that 35 percent of the Macon County men were infected with Syphilis, this allegedly overwhelmed the service in terms of holding to the original program goal.
Over the years, the program continues to be a scientific experiment using the poor black males of Macon County to determine the long term effects of syphilis. The subjects believed they were getting medical treatment, yet they were in fact getting placebos. In 1972 the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) finally publicly uncovered the study and it ended, with the subjects each receiving a minimal financial settlement. What is most shocking is that, while the public was not aware of the alleged research malpractice committed in Macon County, the scientific community, particularly some of those studying venereal disease and social epidemiology, were quite aware of the true nature of the study as the findings had been shared in mainstream medical journals over the years. Therefore, the experiment, its actions, and findings were well-known and institutionalized within the medical community.
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