While reading chapter seven of Medical Apartheid I was surprised about the complete lack of respect for their unwilling participants. Throughout every step of their study, they were finding ways to try and trick and manipulate the black community in order to use them to get information on how syphilis affects the human body. I was especially surprised when I found out that not all people in the study tested positive for syphilis, some had yaws because the test was not completely accurate. The researchers made deliberate moves so participants would trust the researchers, like how they covered funeral costs in order to allow the researchers to examine their corpses. The overall disregard for human life in this study is absolutely appalling.
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