HLTB21H3 Lecture : Term 2 Notes

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Tuskegee study: 399 poor black men all with latent syphilis. Cooperation obtained by offering financial incentives free burial service that they agreed to autopsy, free physical exams, incidental medications. Men not told they had syphilis, instead bad blood . Annually, doctor take blood pressure, listen to hearts, obtain blood sample, advice on diet to help with bad blood . Men not told they would be deprived of treatment for syphilis. Denied access to treatment for syphilis even after penicillin came into use in 1947. Left to degenerate under ravages of tertiary syphilis. 28 men died, 100 others dead of related complications, 40 wives infected, 19 children contracted disease at birth. document natural history of syphilis but came to symbolize racism in medicine, ethical misconduct in medical research, government abuse of most vulnerable- poor, uneducated. Syphilis, great pox from 1493 onward swept over eu and rest of world, china, india, japan.

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Why is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study considered to be so terrible?

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	The people doing the study withheld treatment when it was available in order to study the effects of syphilis.
	The Tuskegee Study only looked at Asian refugees and did not consider any other ethnic groups.
	The people conducting the study did not follow correct scientific protocols and treated many of the participants with drugs that had not been approved by the FDA.
	The study specifically prevented any soldiers from the Tuskegee campus to enlist in World War II.

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An obsolete treatment for syphilis involved inducing fever bydeliberately
infecting patients with the agent of relapsing fever. A recentexperiment AIDS
treatment involved infecting patients with malaria to induce highfevers. Can you
provide some possible explanations behind these peculiar forms oftreatment?

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We are going through a time of profound change in our understanding of the ethics of applied social research. From the time immediately after World War II until the early 1990s, there was a gradually developing consensus about the key ethical principles that should underlie the research endeavor. Two marker events stand out (among many others) as symbolic of this consensus. The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial following World War II brought to public view the ways German scientists had used captive human subjects as subjects in oftentimes gruesome experiments. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study involved the withholding of known effective treatment for syphilis from African-American participants who were infected. Events like these forced the reexamination of ethical standards and the gradual development of a consensus that potential human subjects needed to be protected from being used as 'guinea pigs' in scientific research.â http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/ethics.php

After reading the above paragraph answer the following question:

What is Ethics in Research & Why is it Important?

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