Question

Principles of Biology Worksheet #1 - Tuskegee Study Name: Details of the Movie: 1) Who is Miss Evers? 2) What disease was being studied? 3) What was offered to attract the original participants to the study 4) What study was the Tuskegee Study supposed to mimic or copy? Scientific Method 1) What was the purpose of the original study? 2) What was the purpose of the study sponsored by the Public Health Service? 3) What was the sample size with the disease? Without? 4) Write the hypothesis being tested by the PHS study. 5) Why did Dr. Brotus support the study for so long?

Answer 1

Answer.

Details of the movie.

1. Miss evers is small town nurse. full name was Eunice Evers.

2. Syphilis

3. They were told that they were provided free medical care, foods as well as free burial insurance.

4. Tuskeegee study was to study  the effects of untreated syphilis.The main purpose of the study was to observe the history of untreated syphilis and the people of African-American origin men in were the only who were told they were receiving free health treatment from the government of United States of America.

Scientific methods..

1. The main purpose of the study was to observe the history of untreated syphilis.

2. Already described above..

3. Sample size included 600 African-American people.

4. hypotheses is based on the study for treatment of syphilis with 600 sample size in which 399 with latent syphilis and 201 were control group.

5. Dr. Brotus was thinking that this study will disprove the racist notion of physiological inferiority in blacks that is the main reason he supported this project for a very long time.