The Tuskegee Syphilis Study Pt. 2

Black History for White People

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🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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(This is part 2 of 2) We begin to explore the beginnings of one of the most controversial medical studies held in America: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

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0:00.0	I don't know what most white people in this country feel, but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institution.
0:10.0	Now, this is the evidence.
0:14.0	You want me to make an act of faith risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children, on some idealism which you assure me
0:23.9	exists in America, which I have never seen.
0:28.4	Welcome back to Black History for White People, a podcast where we educate, resource, and challenge
0:33.4	white people about black history.
0:35.5	I'm Brad, and on today's show are my co-host Katina and
0:38.3	Garan. This is part two of the Tuskegee Syphilis study episode. So if you haven't listened to
0:43.6	part one, make sure you go back in your feed and listen to that. In this episode, we continue
0:48.9	the unraveling of the study and a lot of the cover-ups that were happening. And then we take a look at the legacy
0:55.0	of the study itself. What important findings came from it, reforms, the lasting harm,
1:00.7	the long history of injustice within health care, and then we end the episode talking about
1:05.3	the death toll. We hope you enjoyed the discussion. In 1967, we have a second person objecting as Peter Buxton, who was a venereal disease
1:16.9	investigator for the public health service in San Francisco. He objected to the Tuskegee
1:22.2	experiment, and he got just a big runaround. He wrote letter after letter, and he was
1:27.3	constantly directed to, like, other groups or departments or people he needed to complain to. He wrote letter after letter, and he was constantly directed to
1:28.3	like other groups or departments or people he needed to complain to. He was just given a runaround
1:32.0	until after two years in 1969, the CDC started to sort of listen to him. Dr. David Sensor,
1:39.8	the director of the CDC, convened a panel in response to his complaints to review the study, but he
1:46.0	didn't put any black people or any medical ethicists on the panel. It was just a bunch of white
1:51.8	men deciding whether this was acceptable or not. So knowledge of the study was wide within the
1:57.2	medical community at that point. It's important to note that there were 13 journal articles
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