In the Tuskegee Syphilis Project

question 23

Multiple Choice

In the Tuskegee syphilis project,

• A) African American men were purposely infected with syphilis in order to understand how the disease progresses.
• B) African American men with syphilis were recruited to be in a study designed to test the effectiveness of current treatments for syphilis.
• C) Researchers were interested in understanding how syphilis operated in untreated individuals and so did not allow their sample of infected African American men to receive available treatment.
• D) Researchers provided a full debriefing for their participants.

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