A 40-year study on black men with syphilis who were denied treatment in order to study the disease.
100
What is the main idea that has been reinforced by this study?
Mistrust in the medical institutions.
100
What were the night doctors talked about in the folktales?
Individuals who would steal black people in the middle of the night to be given to hospitals for experimentation and dissection.
100
Why were/are African Americans that have AIDS refusing treatment?
Fears that they will be used as guinea pigs like the men in the study
100
What is the name of the man who is called the father of gynecology who received this accreditation by experimenting on enslaved black women?
Dr. J Marion Sims
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Why did black people fear the medical institutions even before this study?
The long history of experimentation on enslaved people.
200
What are the many things the study has come to symbolize in today's society?
Racism in medicine, misconduct in human research, the arrogance of physicians, and government abuse of Black people.
200
In the 1989 journal of the AMA that showed inequalities in the study of heart disease what were the disparities in the treatment between whites and blacks?
White patients 1/3 more likely to have coronary angiography and more than 2X as likely to be treated with bypass surgery.
200
What was the percent of black Americans from the New York Times Poll that believed the AIDS virus was created in a lab to infect black people?
10%
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When did black people start to fear getting exploited by the medical profession?
The antebellum period
300
What was the name of the act that was passed after the study was exposed?
National Research Act of 1974
300
Why were links made between Tuskegee, AIDS, and genocide?
People started to believe that AIDS was manufactured to
erase large numbers of African Americans.
300
What were the two factors Fry gave for why people would believe the folktales despite having no documented evidence?
Southern whites spread rumors as a way to maintain control, and the long history of blacks being used for medical experimentation and dissection.
300
What percent of black members in the 1990 survey conducted by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference felt AIDS was a form of genocide?
35%
300
Who is the founder of the nation's first
Black-controlled hospital, and what is the name of it?
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams and Chicago's Provident
Hospital.
400
What was the main reason the nation couldn't be united according to Clinton's speech?
A whole segment of the nation has no trust in America
400
What was the name of the author who wrote the article that stated “We Americans
continue to value the lives and humanity of some groups more than others.That is not paranoia. It is our historical legacy and a present fact.”