Tuskegee Syphilis Study

The Oslo study of untreated syphilis is the Scandinavian study that was a precursor to the Tuskegee experiment. The Oslo study of untreated syphilis was done in Norway. The study intended to learn the natural history of syphilis when it goes untreated. The study lasted for twenty years, between 1891 and 1910. Participants were hospitalized…

Through time, men and women, have encountered many dangers, that has cost a multitude of lives and almost wiped out humanity. Some of these dangers were caused by contact, fighting wars, and natural disasters. But, there are some killers that cannot be seen and act like invisible agents of death, waiting for the perfect moment…

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study has become the most transcendental, harm-maker example of racism in the medical field. It is shameful, for in an area as important as the medical one, where lives come and go, issues such as this one should never be taken in consideration by anyone whos capable of destroying or saving a…

AIDS by modest estimation can be characterized as the 21st Century answer to the plague. The question most inevitably arises upon whether or not the virus that causes AIDS, HIV, was man made or a natural outbreak. Religious thinkers point to the ever worsening moral landscape of society that brought on God’s wrath in the…

James H. Jones is the author of Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. The book was copyrighted in 1981. For two years, in 1974 and 1975, Jones worked closely with Fred Gray, the civil rights attorney who brought the class action suit on behalf of the men in the Tuskegee study. He also served a…