Deadly Deception Summary

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The “Deadly Deception” documentary was to information the viewers of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. For many people, who do not know what Syphilis is, it is a disease that is also known as bad blood flowing through the human body. The Tuskegee study was an dishonorable clinical study conducted between the early 1930s and early 1970s in Tuskegee, Alabama by the U.S. Public Health Service. The aim of the study was to learn more about how Syphilis was a deadly disease in the human body. Government doctors promised black men in Alabama free treatment for Syphilis, but instead they withheld the treatment. In 1979, Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research was published, and it is referred to as “The Belmont …show more content…
The method was to withhold treatment from four hundred poor black men who were deceived by the promise of care from the U.S. Public Health Service. The study was authorized by the human public health service, and was paid for with taxpayers money. Few survived from Syphilis disease such as, Herman Shaw, Carter Howard, Price Johnson, and Charles Pollard; but, hundreds of lives were gambled, and dozens of lives were lost. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study of untreated Syphilis in the negro male was labeled as a medical misconduct and a disregard for human rights in the name of …show more content…
Attention needs to be paid to the rightful distribution within human society of benefits and burdens of studies involving human subjects. In particular, those subjects chosen for such exploration should not be unfairly selected from groups that are not likely to benefit from the research. In “The Deadly Deception” the human subjects that were chosen for this conducted experiment were assured that they will receive treatment amongst other things received nothing, but an injury or a death. There was no fair distribution between human society's benefits and burdens. Based on the documentary, there were more burdened