The governments, public health function?
Tuskegee Experiment or
Tuskegee Syphilis Study) was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the
United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a group of nearly 400
African American men with
syphilis.
[4][5] The purpose of the study was to observe the effects of the disease when untreated, though by the end of the study medical advancements meant it was entirely treatable. The men were not informed of the nature of the experiment, and more than 100 died as a result.