Miss Evers' Boy's was a really good play. It told the story the Tuskegee experiment. The study was done to show the affects of the treatment of syphilis. It was also to determine whether there was a difference in the way African Americans and Caucasians responded to the disease. It followed a group of four men that participated in the study. The men were treated for by a nurse name Miss Evers. Initially, the men were getting treatment, but once the government discovered penicillin, the men were not treated. This is because the government wanted to see the effects of untreated syphilis. The men were given placebos and made to think they were really getting treated. The doctors attempted to justify by saying that the would help the black people as a whole. The government made then sacrifices. In the end, two of the patients die, and two survive because they went against the governments orders and received penicillin shots. I thought the play was excellent. It really demonstrated how cruel research methods used to be. Being a psychology major, I was reminded by this play why certain ethical guideline are supposed to be followed when conducting studies. Overall this play was great.
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