In 1932, the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” experiment was initiated by the Public Health Service working with the Tuskegee Institute. Initially, the study included 600 black men, 399 with syphilis and 201 without. Doctors told the patients they were being treated for “bad blood” with lack of a more in-depth explanation of the experiment. The men participating received free medical exams, free meals, and burial insurance. Originally, the research was projected for 6 months but went on for 40 years. In 1942, there was a treatment for Syphilis called penicillin. The experiment’s agreements with the Tuskegee Institute didn’t allow for treatment of any kind so the patients were untreated for the disease to allow for a
