In the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

question 9

Multiple Choice

In the Tuskegee syphilis study

• A) participants were informed of the nature of their disease
• B) participants were treated with penicillin when it became available in the mid-1940s
• C) participants included African-American farmers in Alabama at different economic levels
• D) while treatments were initially suspended when results were unimpressive, study of the progress of the disease continued until participants died
• E) the study itself was halted before it was exposed by the press (p, 123)

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