Miss Evers’ Boys
The film is telling us the story of Tuskegee experiment in Alabama, United States. This is a Federal government medical experiment on black people who has Syphilis from 1932 to 1972. The experiment was use to study the effects of untreated patients. In the beginning, a black woman was testifying in court. Then the film turns to her memory. Her name is Eunice Evers and she was a small town nurse in Tuskegee. In 1932 she was sent around town to tell the poor black people who have syphilis that the government will provide them free treatment for syphilis. But people don’t believe that at first. Then after Evers’ persuasion they agree to try. Some of them are Evers’ direct friends. Unfortunately, the doctors were told the government will cancel this program unless they start a study for six months, after that the government will restart the free treatment. The study was named the Tuskegee Study. When the doctor told Evers the situation, that makes her so angry but the doctor told her they don’t have choice; they have to do that for the patients can get free treatment later. In fact, the government continues the study to 1972 and didn’t provide any syphilis treatment! Once the fact was public, a great polemic on ethics of the research with human.
I like the movie and I will recommend it because we need to remember the fact of Tuskegee Experiment on poor African Americans. I was surprised by it and I can’t imagine that happened in United States for 40 years. Sad for them! In the movie, nurse Evers lied to her friends and let them get the fake treatment for the terrible study. The government exterted the time more and more years. Her friends died one by one. I can't imagine how sad and angered Evers was!
The film is telling us the story of Tuskegee experiment in Alabama, United States. This is a Federal government medical experiment on black people who has Syphilis from 1932 to 1972. The experiment was use to study the effects of untreated patients. In the beginning, a black woman was testifying in court. Then the film turns to her memory. Her name is Eunice Evers and she was a small town nurse in Tuskegee. In 1932 she was sent around town to tell the poor black people who have syphilis that the government will provide them free treatment for syphilis. But people don’t believe that at first. Then after Evers’ persuasion they agree to try. Some of them are Evers’ direct friends. Unfortunately, the doctors were told the government will cancel this program unless they start a study for six months, after that the government will restart the free treatment. The study was named the Tuskegee Study. When the doctor told Evers the situation, that makes her so angry but the doctor told her they don’t have choice; they have to do that for the patients can get free treatment later. In fact, the government continues the study to 1972 and didn’t provide any syphilis treatment! Once the fact was public, a great polemic on ethics of the research with human.
I like the movie and I will recommend it because we need to remember the fact of Tuskegee Experiment on poor African Americans. I was surprised by it and I can’t imagine that happened in United States for 40 years. Sad for them! In the movie, nurse Evers lied to her friends and let them get the fake treatment for the terrible study. The government exterted the time more and more years. Her friends died one by one. I can't imagine how sad and angered Evers was!