Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, New and Expanded Edition
Terrible Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, New and Expanded Edition Books
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From 1932 to 1972, the United States Broadcast Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatment. It purpose was to trace the spontaneous evolution of the disease in order to learn how syphilis affected black subjects. The men were not told they had syphilis; they were not warned about what the disease might do to them; and, with the exception of a smattering of tablets during the first few months, they were not given health care. Instead of the powerful drugs they required, they were given aspirin for their aches and pains. Health officials systematically deceived the men into believing they were patients in a government study of “terrible blood”, a catch-all phrase black sharecroppers used to describe a host of illnesses. At the end of this 40 year deathwatch, more than 100 men had died from syphilis or correlated complications. “Terrible Blood” provides compelling answers to the question of how such a tragedy may possibly have been allowed to occur. Tracing the evolution of medical ethics and the nature of choice making in bureaucracies, Jones attempted to show that the Tuskegee Study was not, in fact, an aberration, but a logical outgrowth of race relations and medical do in the United States. Now, in this revised edition of “Terrible Blood”, Jones traces the tragic consequences of the Tuskegee Study over the last decade. A new introduction clarifies why the Tuskegee Study has become a symbol of black oppression and a metaphor for medical neglect, inspiring a prize-winning play, a Nova unique, and a motion picture. A new concluding chapter shows how the black community’s wide-spread rage and distrust caused by the Tuskegee Study has in a weak position efforts by health officials to combat AIDS in the black community. “Terrible Blood” was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and was one of the “N.Y. Times” 12 best books of the year.
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Terrible Blood points out that the US General practitioner General at the time was Hugh Smith Cumming. In 1939 he was responsible more than any other person for making the system we now have in place that controls narcotics and other banned substances which San Jose Mercury News journalist and Pulitizer Prize Winner, Gary Webb, said was controlled by a handful of power elites through the CIA.
Fearing a race war when Webb’s in rank was exposed, Bill Clinton, who apolgized for the Tuskegee Experiment, also sent CIA Director John Deutsch to LA to quell a groundswell of complaints among blacks who feared (rigtly) that their goverment was poisoning inner city youth with drugs.
Hugh Smith Cumming’s close kin married Chase Untermeyer, the US Navy Officer who became the Texas State Representative from the exclusive Tanglewood area of Houston where GHWB had his disputed Texas address even as in office. Untermeyer’s bride is from the Hugh Smith Cumming family and was on the staff of GHWB’s legal counsel. Untermeyer is now Ambassador to Qatar.
Webb’s work shined a light on the Reagan/Bush backed CIA Iran-Contra drug distribution in the US. Webb’s book DARK ALLIANCE, when combined with BAD BLOOD shows how close we have come to a Fascist State.
Remember that next time CNN, FOX or the rest report on the White House’s interest in bugging your telephones.
Corpus Christi, TX
Rating: 4 / 5
During the 40 years of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, the school had threee usa negroid ethnic presidents…
Dr. Robert R. Moton
Dr. Frederick D. Patterson
Dr. Luther H. Foster
Fascinating, also is the small mentioned fact that more than 200 USA Negroid ethnic medical students and 600 USA Negroid ethnic nursing students did clinic rounds within the Syphilis Study…
Why did not one of these “professional and educated” Negroes sound the alarm that something was ethical incorrect about what was being done to those 200 or so “sexually diseased “poor people” negroes”?
This tale is less to do with so-called “white racism” but rather humankind’s shape up since it “climbed out or fall out” of the trees of that “misty and forever lost” Eden…
Which is the reality that…
Educated, powerful, “cold and greedy” human beings (dark pale or otherwise) will everlastingly screw “illiterate, materally poor and mentally weak” human beings – when the “High/Holy with small moral character” feel that they can get away with it.
Blues at you
Rating: 5 / 5
I read this book for an Intro. to Sociology class at the University of Michigan and was shocked and appalled at the horrors that went on. I want to thank Mr. Jones for writing this book. (It was a honestly simple-reader.)
Rating: 4 / 5
very plotting provoking…a must read for people who really want to know about broadcast health and how the system (government) treated ( and perhaps to this day) handle the less privileged
Rating: 4 / 5
The author seemed to be trying to include as many quotes as possible to increase the number of pages in this book. The tale may possibly have been well told in one third the time. As it is, his main points are lost in the trivial details.
Rating: 3 / 5