Delivered tuesday april 24 2012 by james h jones phd historian professor emeritus university of arkansas and author bad blood the tuskegee syphilis . From 1932 to 1972 the united states public health service conducted a non therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis the tuskegee study had nothing to do with treatment it purpose was to trace the spontaneous evolution of the disease in order to learn how syphilis affected black subjects. From 1932 to 1972 the united states public health service conducted a non therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis the tuskegee study had nothing to do with treatment it purpose was to trace the spontaneous evolution of the disease in order to learn how syphilis affected black subjects. At the end of this 40 year deathwatch more than 100 men had died from syphilis or related complications bad blood provides compelling answers to the question of how such a tragedy could have been allowed to occur tracing the evolution of medical ethics and the nature of decision making in bureaucracies jones attempted to show that the . Title bad blood the tuskegee syphilis experiment a tragedy of race and medicine author wikictsnetorg nadine gottschalk 2020 10 08 13 22 50 subject