The narrator was used as an experiment for a cure in the novel that utilized shock therapy. He was put through great pain that the white doctors were unwilling to inflict on themselves. When in pain, he was unable to answer answer simple questions that the doctors asked him. When undergoing the shock therapy, he was observed, and laughed at because he involuntarily kicked and looked like he was dancing. During the Tuskegee experiment the researchers observed the patients with syphilis, but kept working treatments from being issued, just to watch the patients longer. In both the book and the actual Tuskegee study, the doctors didn't actually care about the well being of their patients. The doctors in both cases didn't conduct their experiments on white people. They believed it better to experiment on people they saw as "inferior," rather than on people like themselves.
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