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269. Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations

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The Use of Vulnerable Populations of African Americans

The tuskegee study of untreated syphilis in the negro mail is one of the most infamous cases in us. Medical history. Its goal was trying to understand the long term effects of venereal disease as it developed through its various stages. The problems emerge after penesillon is discovered and more widely used. And the question that should have been asked is, now that we have a series of effective treatments for veneral s, ought we to continue a study of untreated Syphilis? Or ought we to provide treatment?

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