Image result for tuskegee syphilis experimentThere are numerous ethical issues revolving around syphilis specifically in the past when the United States and other countries encountered it and were uneducated about what the effects truly brought to the table. During the research and testing for syphilis there were many unethical things done in various countries including one of the most profound cases in the United States.

 

This experiment was called the Tuskegee study many immoral things were practiced during this gruesome study. One immoral thing about the experiment was that the patients were wrongfully informed about the entire situation and there was no clear consent to inject the syphilis. The patients were also not told the real dangers of injecting themselves with syphilis leading them on to believe a lie. The patients were also turned down when they needed medical attention, just letting innocent people suffer for a countries education. Also, the participants were not given the cure to syphilis even when the cure was easily available. Another, unethical thing done to the people of Tuskegee was they were lead on to believe they were receiving a treatment for the future coming of the virus rather than getting the virus and slowly dying from the effects of syphilis. This study was not only unethical but was extremely unmoral to do to another human being. Letting them suffer from something that can be easily prevented.

 

These studies were rationalized by additional study of syphilis when they tried to justify it because we as a country were so uneducated about it. As well as, to monitor the progression of untreated syphilis. Yet let this go on for way to long letting people die and become seriously ill.

 

Some potential consequences for this unethical study could result in a severe form of racism. This is because it seems that the U.S. government was out to get the black men of Tuskegee and this makes the entire race distrust in the medical opinions of doctors forever. Another potential consequence is spreading this from generation to generation making more helpless people infected with syphilis. Along with in the future if any other medical studies need to be taken they will never agree to participate. To a close, I believe the entire Tuskegee study was extremely unethical and unmoral to all the participants in the experiment.