Researchers for the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

question 14

Multiple Choice

Researchers for the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

• A) purposely infected black men with syphilis.
• B) enlisted the support of local doctors to ensure that their subjects would not receive treatment for syphilis.
• C) received no government funding for their work.
• D) were forced to stop the study after five years.
• E) followed the guidelines laid out in established codes of research ethics.

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