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Bad Blood (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Bad Blood (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Loot Price R594
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From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public 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 medication 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 "bad
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 related complications. "Bad
Blood" provides compelling answers to the question of how such a
tragedy could have been allowed to occur. Tracing the evolution of
medical ethics and the nature of decision 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 practice in the United States. Now, in this revised edition
of "Bad Blood", Jones traces the tragic consequences of the
Tuskegee Study over the last decade. A new introduction explains
why the Tuskegee Study has become a symbol of black oppression and
a metaphor for medical neglect, inspiring a prize-winning play, a
Nova special, and a motion picture. A new concluding chapter shows
how the black community's wide-spread anger and distrust caused by
the Tuskegee Study has hampered efforts by health officials to
combat AIDS in the black community. "Bad 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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