This is represented in the movie by how Miss Eunice Evers advertises the study to Tuskegee black residents as "free healthcare" and they blindly trust her due to their huge respect for her. When the patients are seriously suffering due to the lack of penicillin, her and the other doctors claim that the Tuskgee study patients would be afflicted with the rare "Herxheimer" reaction.

The play closely follows the stories of the patients whereas the movie places a greater emphasis on Miss Evers' personal battle against her morals, and even closely follows her romance with one of the patients Caleb. This was possibly done to dramatize the movie however in narrating the patients's stories, the play gives a closer look into their raw suffering and helplessness---rightly provoking the audience to be appalled but not surprised at why certain demographics have trust issues with the healthcare system.

2 Representation: Representation of this in the play was not directly mentioned, but this happened during the Great Depression when many families were in poverty, lacking education, and had very minimal medical care.

3 History: The play represents the historical fact or perspective differently than other genres like a history book, the news, or other films because book articles focus more on the wrongdoing of the doctors and how unethical the whole thing was, whereas the play focuses on the patients themselves and how they were. This reminds me of the care and stigma articles, where people focus more on people who are sick or what happened rather than the actual patients.

In "Miss Evers' Boys," the author depicts how penicillin became an effective and available treatment while the study was being conducted, but the researchers actively instilled fear of this treatment in the participants in order to continue with the research.

An example of this is on page 69, the beginning of scene two, where Willie and Caleb go to a treatment center by themselves in order to receive penicillin because they have heard from relatives and others among their community that “bad blood” is being treated with it. Evers then stops them from receiving treatment, arguing that penicillin may kill them. In this scene, we are able to understand how desperate the men are for an improvement in their health; they are even defying Evers, whom they trusted. Eventually they are convinced by the nurse not to take the treatment.

-The play depicts the patients' personal relationships with the medical professionals involved in the study, such as Nurse Evers. Understanding the perspective of medical professionals provides a rationale for why and how the study was conducted over many years, illustrating how both patients and health care providers from the same community were subjected to these conditions, while the play explains how not only the participants but also the nurses were manipulated. Ms. Evers was constantly placed in a dilemma of prioritizing the authority figure of the doctors or the well-being of patients with whom she had a personal connection. She was still learning about syphilis as the study progressed, and her lack of knowledge made her vulnerable to the doctors' advice. When it came to penicillin treatment, the doctors kept giving multiple reasons as to why the Tuskegee men could not receive treatment. She was initially told that it could possibly cause the patients' hearts to "disintegrate" (page 69), and she was later told that the treatment of penicillin was a priority for contagious patients (page 74).

1. Black men were not given informed consent about the experiment testing the effects of syphilis. They were not given treatment as well which resulted in death with some participants.

Theberge-Torres, Katherine A. (Student)

2. Ben Washington was the first participant in the movie portrayal of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study to die due to lack of treatment to fight against the syphilis.

Theberge-Torres, Katherine A. (Student)

3. The play focuses on the romantic interest and connection Miss Ever's forms with her subjects in order to tell the story of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. The death of Ben Washington provides motivation for Miss Evers to advocate for treatments to the subjects due to him advocating it so heavily to her before he died. The play portrays the tragic effects of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study through the impact it has had on the characters and their relationships with each other. This perspective is differently from research articles like the CDC's "About The Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee" because the movie provides an emotional perspective which makes the audience understand the tragedy on a personal level. This is different from the research article because it only provides factual, non-biased evidence to illustrate how horrific the experiment was rather than try to connect with the audience on a personal level.

2. In "Miss Evers Boys" the withholding of treatment revealed the deep racial exploitation and dehumanisation of the Tuskegee Study. On page 94, Caleb confronted Dr. Daglous, expressing his anguish over how the doctors had treated Black men like disposable subjects. He asked, "You got any more pigs cookin'? 'Cause if you do, I hope you learned the difference between treatin' and watchin'." This statement emphasises the painful reality that scientific curiosity had been placed above their lives. Dr. Douglas's reluctant admission exposed how Black men were reduced to mere subjects for experiments, perpetuating the stigma surrounding Black health issues. This moment also highlighted the harsh "racial hierarchy" in healthcare, where Black doctors were expected to care for Black patients, while white doctors operated under a different set of standards, reinforcing the systemic racism that isolated the Black community.

3. Willies and Caleb's trust in Miss Evers, followed by their painful realisation of betrayal, had a deep emotional impact on me. The play uses African American colloquialisms in the Black characters’ dialogue to highlight their cultural identity, even amid dehumanisation. Unlike history texts or news articles that present the withholding of penicillin as an ethical violation, the play makes it personal. The dialogue offers intimate insight into the characters' struggles, revealing Miss Evers' growing guilt and the men’s realisation of their exploitation. This makes the failure of ethics feel more emotionally powerful than in other genres.

The play introduces this by portraying the withholding of penicillin in a more dramatic and emotional way, while history can simply only use facts in a more objective and only focusing on the historical context; the play introduces characters, dialogue and stage to evoke empathy for the suffering of the participants and it also brings out the moral outrage that was brought up with the study.