In 1932, syphilis, a disease that affects thousands of people in the United States, was rampant. To find a possible reason why and how this illness occurred, the U. S. Public Health Service (USPHS) conducted an experiment. This experiment was done to discover the course of latent syphilis when left untreated in black males. In order to receive accurate research, scientists tested four-hundred men with syphilis, and two-hundred men who were unaffected by this disease. To select these men, Dr.…
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