On October 6, the Philadelphia City Government formally apologized for immoral medical experiments conducted in a prison in the 20th century. Most of the experiments were African-American men. Philadelphia Data Photo Xinhua News Agency issued a statement issued by the Philadelphi

The Philadelphia City Government formally apologized on October 6 for an immoral medical experiment conducted in a prison in the 20th century. Most of the subjects of these experiments were African-American men.

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According to a statement issued by the Philadelphia City Government, from the 1950s to the 1970s, prisoners in Holmsberg Prison in Philadelphia were deliberately exposed to drugs, viruses, molds, asbestos, and even dioxins. The vast majority of the prisoners who underwent these experiments were African-Americans, many of whom were illiterate, and they waited for prosecution in prison and tried to save money on bail.

statement said that this is another tragic case of disgraceful and immoral medical experiments on people of color in the history of the United States. Philadelphia City Mayor Jim Kenney said that although it happened decades ago, the historical impact and trauma caused by this medical racist practice has lasted for generations, and to this day, it is necessary to reflect on past atrocities. "There is no excuse for us to formally express a sincere apology to those who have suffered inhuman and terrible abuse."

reportedly conducted by Albert Kligman, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, involving skin diseases, biochemistry, and pharmaceutical research, and many prisoners left lifelong scars and health problems because of these experiments. Kligman passed away in 2010. The University of Pennsylvania issued an apology statement last year and removed Kligman's name from some of the school's honorary titles.

According to historical data, the U.S. federal government's public health department began to cooperate with Tuskegee College in 1932 to recruit hundreds of African Americans as experimental subjects to study syphilis and its harm to the human body, but did not properly treat the experimental subjects. The experiment was stopped 40 years later, and the White House issued a presidential apology for this.

(Original title: Philadelphia, USA apologizes for immoral medical experiments, most of the experimental subjects are African-Americans)

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