In the year 1,95 3, Dr. Walter Edmondson of PH S was experimenting with blood samples from the Tasskime poison experiment in the village of Milstead, Mekong County, Georgia. (Fash sources: National Archives/Public domain)

The experience of the Tasskime experiment, one of the most brutal pages in the history of medical research in the United States, which has been published for 40 years, still deserves our reintroduction.

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This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Exposure of the New York Times (Tuskegee Syphilis Study). The human experiment, which was carried out in the vicinity of Tasskii, State of Alabama, United States of America, was conducted for 40 years before the 1972 truth ceremony.

The experiment targeted a group of black men with virtually no knowledge of medicine, of whom some 400 were infected with syphilis. All were told that they were receiving treatment, but in fact they did not receive any treatment — the researchers responsible for the experiment deliberately refrained from taking treatment measures in order to observe the development of syphilis.

The experiment was brought to light and generated intense public discussion of the right to informed consent, culminating in a series of regulations. Today, the Tasskie experiment has become an important case of ethics. In recent days, a new paper published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Custodial Medicine attempted to revisit public awareness of the experiment and how to prevent a recurrence of similar events.

The author of the paper, Martin Tobin, stated that “any ethics research that medical researchers need to understand is included in the story of Tajikistan, which is more educational than a statement on informed consent”.

In 1953, Dr. David Allbritton, Dr. Euice Rivers and Dr. Walter Edmondson conducted annual summaries in the Meken County, Georgia. (Figure sources: National Archives/Public domain)

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Unlike many research projects that also have ethical problems, the Tajik experiment is visible because it is not secret — it enjoys the full support of many prominent leaders of the medical community. In 1932, the director of the sexually transmitted diseases department of the United States Public Health Service (PHS, front of the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention), Tony Clark (Taliaferro Clark), presented preliminary ideas for the experiment.

Clark read a study of white men in Oslo, Norway, in 1928. inspired by the study, he believed that black chewings in poverty in the Meken County, Alabama The Association is a group of suitable researchers: Many of them are already infected with syphilis. At that time, there were many misperceptions in the medical community of the effects of the disease, one of which was that the effects of the disease were dependent on the ethnicity of the patient. Clarke plans to study how the conditions of black syphilis patients can develop without treatment.

In the process of convening the test, a black nurse named Yunife Rivers (Eunice Rivers) helped researchers to build confidence among black farmers. As an exchange of participation in the experiment, a number of benefits, such as free medical examinations, free transportation, daily free meals and free medical treatment for any minor illness, are tested. Rifs also persuaded many families to agree to carry out exhumations in exchange for funeral benefits.

Researchers, however, lying their illness to the test: researchers told them that they were being tested and that they were receiving “bad blood” treatment instead of syphilis treatment. Researchers also concealed treatment programmes: initially, the drugs they provided were not curatively effective; even after more than 10 years after the experiment began, the medical community had found artemisininin to have good curative effects on syphilis, and when artemisinininin had been widely used for syphilis treatment, they were still being tested for untreated pills. In order to obtain more research data, researchers even falsely claim that merely observing symptoms is not able to accurately diagnose the disease, and therefore demand that the suffering be tested for wearing the gill.

In 1933, Dr. Jesse Peters and Dr. Euice Rivers dressed an unidentified pilot. (Figure sources: CDC/Public domain)

Indeed, several doctors had expressed ethical concerns about the study, but their warnings had been ignored. In December 1965, fellow Peter Buxton interviewed several of them. Shortly afterwards, he wrote to the United States Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), expressing “serious moral concern” for the Tashkent study. CDC invited him to discuss the matter at a meeting in Atlanta, where Dr. John Charles Cutler of CDC was reprimanded by Dr. Bakston. Bakston has no airstrip, and he wrote again to CDC in November 1968. In February of the following year, David Sencer, Director of CDC, established a “Blue Ribbon” group dedicated to the ethical aspects of the experiment. As a result of the panel’s discussions, the study was essential for science and therefore supported the continuation of the experimental programme for non-currency by relevant researchers.

Eventually, Bakston contacted the media. On 25 July 1972, the Washington Star Report covered the news, which was posted on the front version of the New York Times the following day. In particular, a panel of experts was set up by CDC to conduct further investigations, following strong public protests. Finally, in October 1972, after 40 years of the commencement of the experiment, the Tasskime experiment was terminated. At this time, however, 28 people died directly from syphilis, 100 from syphilis complications, 40 tested wives were infected and 19 children were infected at birth. 1997 Acting United States President Bill Clinton