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How do race and health intersect?

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Historically, health in regards to one’s race has been a subject of bias. Take the Tuskegee Syphilis Study for example; from 1932-1970’s, hundreds of low-income, black men were test subjects for syphilis research. Researchers at the Tuskegee Institute aimed to study “untreated syphilis in the negro male.” They promised participants benefits such as free meals, healthcare, and burial stipends. This enticement directly targeted the population of underprivileged, black men. During the decades-long study, these participants were injected with the incurable (at the time) disease in order to monitor their symptoms. Only a decade or so into this experiment, Penicillin (a treatment for syphilis) became widely available, but was withheld from all participants. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is just one example of how race and health overlap, I’m sure there’s a bunch of stuff I left out but that’s the main gust. I don’t know if that answers your question well enough, but I hope just that one example provided some context yk
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