Question 1A: The essay mainly discussed the unethical and inhumane experiments performed on over 600 African American males, of which 400 were infected were syphilis from a previous event, and 200 of which were reserved as the control group and had no signs of syphilis. The essay discussed the process of selection, the opinions of many medical groups and racism of the experiment, the controversy of the experiment after it became leaked into national news, and the origins of the experiment.
Question 1B: The end results of the study were that only 18% of the original 400 test subjects were alive at the forced closure of the experiment in 1972. Those scientists who had kept the study secret had made sure that those participating in the study would not receive treatment for the syphilis weather through misleading them …show more content…
The experiment created several ethical codes and regulations that are still in effect to this day. If any good came from this vile experiment, it would be the introduction of new regulations and codes. In fact if this experiment were to go on or even be held in today’s time, the people of the US would react with an uproar and quite possibly the state of the government could end in Durkheim’s term of what he would call an anomie. In turn this would lead the US to receive quite severe backlash and receive the steel end of the UN’s boot. This could lead to several other possibilities and depending on the way the media would spin things the US could end up in quite possibly one of the darkest times. Whether we could as a nation recover from this and still end up reformed is a question that we’d have to ask ourselves if we had let those in power do something like this. The concept of letting our government or even allowing this to happen in our nation would surely be shocking and sever our communication and reputation with the rest of the
Question 1B: The end results of the study were that only 18% of the original 400 test subjects were alive at the forced closure of the experiment in 1972. Those scientists who had kept the study secret had made sure that those participating in the study would not receive treatment for the syphilis weather through misleading them …show more content…
The experiment created several ethical codes and regulations that are still in effect to this day. If any good came from this vile experiment, it would be the introduction of new regulations and codes. In fact if this experiment were to go on or even be held in today’s time, the people of the US would react with an uproar and quite possibly the state of the government could end in Durkheim’s term of what he would call an anomie. In turn this would lead the US to receive quite severe backlash and receive the steel end of the UN’s boot. This could lead to several other possibilities and depending on the way the media would spin things the US could end up in quite possibly one of the darkest times. Whether we could as a nation recover from this and still end up reformed is a question that we’d have to ask ourselves if we had let those in power do something like this. The concept of letting our government or even allowing this to happen in our nation would surely be shocking and sever our communication and reputation with the rest of the