Tuskegee Syphilis Project In the Tuskegee case, there was a lot of information gained. Most notably, that African-Americans were affected somewhat differently by syphilis than Caucasians, especially when it came to heart problems. Other information collected included how long the people in the study lived when compared to the control group, what they died of, and what kinds of abnormalities they had on their tests. In nearly every case, it was found that African-Americans with syphilis had higher percentages of health problems than those who did not have the disease. The study concluded from that information that African-Americans who acquired syphilis developed health problems from that disease, and suggested that those problems would not have been seen at such high rates without a syphilis diagnosis. This was similar to a study that was done in Norway, and conducted on Caucasians, both male and female, in order to determine how syphilis affected the body.

Those who made an argument for the study did so by stating that they needed to...

They could also use the blood they took from the patients in the Tuskegee study to work toward new treatments that could be used to cure people. There were already treatments available, but they were generally very brutal and they could just as easily cause death or serious health problems. They also often took many months, and sometimes up to a year, to cure someone because of the nature of the chemicals in them. Eventually, studies like Tuskegee led to the opportunity to use penicillin and similar drugs to treat syphilis, which was a much safer and easier treatment than what was used before it -- some of which even contained arsenic. However, even though there was information that was collected, there were problems with the study that made it a poor choice.
Many ethical questions were raised by the study. PHS spent a considerable amount of time attempting to avoid these questions, because it did not want the study stopped. The physicians…