Medical Racism Experiments on African-Americans

[sheshe2]

In 1994, following the publication of a series of articles on plutonium injections of American citizens, President Clinton appointed an advisory committee on human radiation experiments to investigate the matter and gave it access to thousands of secret documents. Jonathan D. Moreno, a biomedical ethicist at the University of Virginia, worked for the committee, then went on to examine the broad history of experiments that the United States Government had secretly conducted on human subjects in the interest of national security from World War II through the cold war. One such secret experiment on a unsuspecting African American man, prematurely ended his life.



Ebb Cade Experiment

In 1945, African-American Ebb Cade was secretly injected with plutonium, the substance used to make nuclear bombs. Cade, a 53-year-old truck driver, was taken to a hospital in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, after breaking several of his bones in a car accident. He became an unwitting guinea pig in a deadly government experiment, and did not realize the doctors caring for him were also employed by the US Atomic Energy Commission. The doctors had been ordered to find out what exposure to plutonium did to the human body.

It was on 23 March 1945 Ebb Cade was on his way to work at a construction site for the Manhattan Project when he was involved in a traffic accident at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He was a cement worker for the J.A. Jones Construction Company. Cade presented at the Oak Ridge Hospital with fractures of right patella, right radius and ulna and left femur. Ebb Cade received the injections at the Oak Ridge Hospital on the Clinton Engineer Works reservation at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Cade became known as HP-12 (Human Product-12), and was the first person to be injected with Pu-239. In order to test the migration of plutonium through his body, subsequently fifteen of Cade’s teeth were extracted, and bone samples taken.


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Operation Drop Kick

Undaunted by what it had done to Cade in 1945, the US government targeted other African-Americans for experimentation in the 1950s. Early in that decade, the CIA and the US military released close to half a million mosquitoes infected with yellow fever and dengue fever into several black neighborhoods in Florida.

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I guess that puts the US, to our everlasting shame, right up there with Nazi Germany. Medical racism and there was no that stood for you.

[brer cat]

1. This country has much to be ashamed of,

much of it due to the arrogance of white superiority.

[sheshe2]

3. I went on to read...

I only made it half way. Always the minorities targeted, be they black, poc, women infants and the poor and disabled without consent.

Read if you can...you will need a strong stomach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States

[guillaumeb]

2. Recommended. Similar to the Tuskegee Experiment.

Who Were the Participants
 A total of 600 men were enrolled in the study. Of this group 399, who had syphilis were a part of the experimental group and 201 were control subjects. Most of the men were poor and illiterate sharecroppers from the county.
What the Men Received in Exchange for Participation
The men were offered what most Negroes could only dream of in terms of medical care and survivors insurance. They were enticed and enrolled in the study with incentives including: medical exams, rides to and from the clinics, meals on examination days, free treatment for minor ailments and guarantees that provisions would be made after their deaths in terms of burial stipends paid to their survivors.
Treatment Withheld
There were no proven treatments for syphilis when the study began. When penicillin became the standard treatment for the disease in 1947 the medicine was withheld as a part of the treatment for both the experimental group and control group.

All black males, and no treatment offered even when it was available.

http://www.tuskegee.edu/about_us/centers_of_excellence/bioethics_center/about_the_usphs_syphilis_study.aspx

[sheshe2]

4. We are in many ways a flawed and inhumane people.

We prove that every damn day.

There is goodness as well yet it seems to forever lag behind the evil.

[heaven05]

5. per, your last line

shame ameriKKKa, shame forever lasting!!!!!!!!!!!! Now it's just shoot them, from the 11-15 years old to Sandra Bland to .....well my point is made......

[sheshe2]

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