Eugenics and deathmaking

The docs who were behind the Tuskeegee study were influenced by the Eugenics movement...

why am I not surprised?

The physician who started the study and the two who presided over it during its first decade all graduated from the University of Virginia, which, according to the authors, "provided fertile ground for developing what was apparently among the earliest medical course work incorporating eugenic theory." Eugenic theory, they note, posits that "people of different races inherited not only differences in appearance, moral character, and sexual behavior, but also differential susceptibility to disease."

The authors say that at Virginia, the three physicians were taught a brand of racial medicine that had found scientific validation in eugenics. Moreover, they say that during each of their tenures at the Public Health Service, all three men actively associated themselves with the American eugenics movement .

In the Tuskeegee experiment, half of the men who presented for Syphillis treatment were allowed to receive placebo.
This may have been ok at first, (the treatment for syphillis before penicillin was very toxic) but the study continued even after it was recongized that a simple penicillin shot cured syphillis.

This is one of the reasons that black Americans mistrust the medical system in the USA.

Now, I wonder what is the background of Dr. Wannamaker of Univ of Minnesota's notorious Red Lake Streptococcus study where children with impetigo were not treated, resulting in several cases of kidney disease...thirty years later, two of them were still alive, on dialysis...