Shining A Light on 'The Tuskegee Study'

I have a basic working knowledge of, what has become known as, the horrific ‘Tuskegee Study.’ My basic knowledge was that the study was racist, callous and freely given to infecting unsuspecting blacks with syphilis.  Because I never had a need to actually pursue any further study on this event from the past, I, naively, accepted that what I knew was factual and attributed the event to an era when morons still considered blacks as nothing but an inconvenience.  I should have been more questioning.

At the website Spiked Science, there is a lengthy, seemingly factual article that examines the ‘Tuskegee Study’ and the article shines a much brighter light on what actually was occurring.  The article is entitled “Tuskegee re-examined." Written by Richard Shweder, the article is worth taking the time to read.

Via Arts & Letters Daily.

Posted by on 01/22 at 07:54 AM

  1. Fascinating article...while not wholly convinced, I am certainly much more skeptical of automatic invocations of “Tuskegee” when discussing medical ethics.

    Fascinating.

    Posted by david  on  01/23  at  12:18 AM

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