Tuskegee

Tuskegee Tuskegee: Video Summary The video began by explaining what the Tuskegee experiment was, which is that it was a study of the progression of syphilis in humans if left untreated. The experiment was originally funded by the Rosenwald Fund and originally it was to be used to diagnose and treat patients of syphilis, which was rampant throughout the 1920’s and 30’s, with arsenic. But in 1932, before treatment could reach large portions of the diagnosed population, the great depression hit and the Rosenwald Fund dried up. With so many patients identified and very few of them treated it was thought that a study of their progression would aid in finding a reliable treatment for syphilis since arsenic treatment was not very reliable and had quite a few side effects and could also lead to death itself. The experiment was originally supposed to observe black men from Macon County, Alabama for six months, instead they were observed for forty years and their bodies were autopsied after death. The men themselves were recruited off of plantations and in church were the doctors conducting the experiment had set up deals with the plantation owners and priests of these locations. experiment, men, treatment, tuskegee, syphilis, study, patients, doctors, after, years, treat, rosenwald, originally, one, given, fund, video, very, truth, treated, survivors, shortly, set, reliable, progression, out, nurse, medical, human, few, dollars, death, clinics, black, arsenic