Bad Blood is a novel accounting the experiment that ran in Macon, Alabama from 1932-1971; only African American males ran by physicians and medical scientists. The study came about to raise public health for African Americans and the treatment of syphilis. The public health service (PHS) launched it’s own syphilis control survey in 1931, reaching many rural counties in the southern United States. When the study ended, Dr. Taliaferro Clark, wanted to do more research that would become the “Study of Untreated Syphilis in Males.” The sole purpose of this research was to study the effects on untreated syphilis on African American males. The experiment was under the Tuskegee Institute and given permission by the local and state board of health.
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Eventually, through the progressive reforms of the late nineteenth century, hygiene and “cleaning up communities became the most important way to combat disease epidemics” (Bad Blood, James Jones), leading to public health programs. Public health officers came to make African Americans a priority after they realized, among other things, that a poorly educated and a race poorly medically taken care of was “taxing to the economy and the rest of the country,” (Bad Blood, James Jones) and urged whites to support African American hygiene and education programs for their own “self-interest.” This started health care for all ethnicities, which greatly effect United States history, because lowering our mortality rates and giving the option of medical care to all people would eventually make us a power country. Health care is so important in the United States even now, it’s what sets one politician aside from another, and can be the reason someone refuses to vote for one candidate because they don’t like their views on health …show more content…
The African American became very critical, disrespectful, and distrustful of the profession, and rightfully so. This distrust led African Americans to be very uneducated about the seriousness of AIDS. The African American population has a higher number of people infected with AIDS then most races, because they didn’t trust the health care profession when prevention of the disease was being spread. AIDS is a very large part of American history and the number of people who were infected could’ve been lower if the trust of people in health care had not been lost in a cruel experiment on one race of
Eventually, through the progressive reforms of the late nineteenth century, hygiene and “cleaning up communities became the most important way to combat disease epidemics” (Bad Blood, James Jones), leading to public health programs. Public health officers came to make African Americans a priority after they realized, among other things, that a poorly educated and a race poorly medically taken care of was “taxing to the economy and the rest of the country,” (Bad Blood, James Jones) and urged whites to support African American hygiene and education programs for their own “self-interest.” This started health care for all ethnicities, which greatly effect United States history, because lowering our mortality rates and giving the option of medical care to all people would eventually make us a power country. Health care is so important in the United States even now, it’s what sets one politician aside from another, and can be the reason someone refuses to vote for one candidate because they don’t like their views on health …show more content…
The African American became very critical, disrespectful, and distrustful of the profession, and rightfully so. This distrust led African Americans to be very uneducated about the seriousness of AIDS. The African American population has a higher number of people infected with AIDS then most races, because they didn’t trust the health care profession when prevention of the disease was being spread. AIDS is a very large part of American history and the number of people who were infected could’ve been lower if the trust of people in health care had not been lost in a cruel experiment on one race of