Syphilis
Essays

The Tuskegee Study was intended to examine the long-term side effects of untreated syphilis. It tracked a group of 600 poor African-American men in Alabama, 399 who had syphilis and the rest who did not, for over 40…

Also known as "the pox," "Lues," "Cupid's Disease," the "Great Imitator" of other diseases, or "Syph," syphilis is a potentially-devastating sexually-transmitted bacterial infection infamous for its famous victims (NIH,…

In 1928, the U.S. Public Health Service or PHS collaborated with the Rosenwald Fund charity organization of Chicago to help improve the health of African-Americans in the South (WorldNow 2007).

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.

Syphilis -- viewed from the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine as a Public Health Issue