Deadly Deception Summary

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Introduction The Deadly Deception, discusses the inhumane events of the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in Negro Males.” The study took place in the 1930’s in Mecon County, Alabama and consisted of a total 400 poor, African American sharecroppers that would not question the activities of government doctors. The study was supposed to last 6 months but extended to 40 years. The men were recruited from schools and churches with the promise of receiving treatment for “bad blood”. However, the government doctors had no intentions of actually providing these men with any sort of treatment, even after it was discovered that penicillin could treat syphilis. Instead the government doctors were interested in researching the affects of late and …show more content…

(“The Belmont Report”, 2016). The men of Tuskegee were not treated as individuals; they were all given the exact same placebo and received the same plan of care. The men were not properly educated about their conditions, what they were being tested for and what kind of treatments they were receiving, thus they could not give a valid consent to be apart of this study. The Belmont report defines beneficence as “an ethical manner not only by respecting their decisions and protecting them from harm, but also making efforts to secure their well-being.” (“The Belmont Report”,2016). In the Tuskegee project, after penicillin was discovered to treat syphilis, it was still with held from the men, for the purpose of researching the late and latent signs and symptoms of syphilis. The doctors made no effort to provide these ill men with treatment and when the men tried to seek out treatment they were denied it or the physician that provided services were

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