Tuskegee syphilis experiment

Topic of Introduction Syphilis has been a major public health problem in all healthcare organizations worldwide since the 1500s. Despite numerous prevention and intervention efforts, the overall rates of the case of syphilis in the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have not decreased significantly over time. In fact, according to Sally Ho, “the latest available data, from 2014, showed a 15 percent increase in cases overall, the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention said. A majority of…

Prostitution is illegal in the United States and is part of modern society. It is a controversial topic in the United States and the number of prostitutes is steadily increasing every year. Prostitution gives prostitutes a job and money and they are also known as the word “whore” and “hooker.” The legalization of prostitution has become more of a topic the public talks about. Prostitution is advertised on the internet on multiple different sites that the law cannot regulate. The adolescents in…

divides every thirty hours through transverse fission (Mitija et al., 2013). Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum is a bacterium that causes syphilis and has a 0.2% difference in its genome compared to Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue (Mitjà et al., 2013). This difference is due to the different symptoms that these bacteria cause (Sarkodie, 2016). Also, syphilis from Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum is transmitted through sexual contact while Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue is…

Welcome to syphilis everyone. Syphilis is sexually transmitted disease and the symptoms are severe. I was interested in this topic ever since I watched Gray anatomy and one of the characters got syphilis. I wanted to learn more about syphilis but I never have time to do research about it, and I thought this is my chance to do some research about it for this class. Magner, Lois N. said syphilis is known as the Great Mimic because it mimicked other diseases. When syphilis starts to spread, every…

As reported by the Mayo Clinic (2014), Syphilis, which originates from the bacteria Treponema pallidum, is a sexually transmitted infection that largely spreads through sexual contact. Syphilis derives when a person comes in contact with painless lesions on the genitals, mouth, or rectum of an infected person. Since the initial recording of Syphilis in 1494, the disease outbreak has experienced fluctuations in numbers between genders, ethnicities, and sexual orientations throughout the decades.…

targeted (Washington, 385). The Tuskegee Syphilis implicated efforts to find distinct types of people by only using African-American as their subjects in the study due to the belief that blacks manifested the venereal disease differently compared to the whites (157). There is no denying that racism was a driving force for this research, even Public Health Services (PHS) stepped in to help to make this belief true as they were confident that “blacks are a notoriously syphilis-soaked race” despite…

Murder Murder and death are common themes throughout literature works. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Alan Poe and “A Vendetta” by Guy de Maupassant, both authors explore the theme of murder in their stories. Both authors take the reader into the character’s mindset before and after committing murder. Although both stories have similarities in the way the protagonists patiently planned the murder; however, there are differences in the motives for murder, the way the murders were committed,…

“Hooking up” has definitions ranging from simply kissing or making out to vaginal, oral, or anal sex with no commitment or feelings attached (Marganski & Fauth). The practice of hooking up has become much more prevalent since the 1920’s when they first started to become more frequent as kids were starting to go on dates out from under their parents’ watchful eye. In the 1960’s adults became more liberated with the growing availability of birth control and rise of feminism (Garcia, et. al).…

Within Victorian England, there existed a particular perspective surrounding the image of women, and ultimately, this molded the expectation of their roles within society. In Ian Wards book, Sex, Crime, and Literature in Victorian England, the author addresses four main areas of concern surrounding England. Within the text, Ward incorporates a significant amount of literature from the time period in order to better reflect the conditions of the country, and its people. Of these four areas of…

19th Century Russian Prostitutes: Sinners or Victims? In pre-revolution Tsarist Russia women were seen as completely subordinate to men, and prostitutes felt this injustice more than anyone else. Prostitution ran rampant across the nation and those stuck in the profession were drowning in legal and social plight with no voice with which to speak up for themselves. Sonya in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment exemplifies how prostitutes were affected by their profession while showing a…