Question

In the __________________, Black/African American men from rural Alabama were allowed to go untreated for syphilis. After this blatant incident of health disparity and racism, there were sweeping changes on how the health care industry conducted research.

Answer 1

1972

Step-by-step explanation:

It was discovered in the 19th century that there was an incident of a type of syphilis among some set of people. And these people were not aware of this diseases. Therefore, the government at that time decided to make use of their ignorance to find a solution to the incidence of the syphilis. This was by making use of the ignorant people, which were black American, as the research objects or specimens. That is like the Guinea pig or albino rats that are used for research.

It was discovered that, From 1932 to 1972 about 400 poor black men were used as guinea pigs as scientists studied the effects of syphilis left untreated. And to carried out this act, they lied to the people that they were going to be checking for HIV among them. Since they knew that the people were not aware of the incidence of syphilis.