HISC 116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Nuremberg Trials, Associated Press, Jay Katz
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Objections to the tuskegee study: 1955. Count d. gibson (community health activist) was first person to raise objections to study. Troubled by how the men involved in the study were neglected of actual treatment: 1965: march on selma, april 1965: phs meeting. Anne yobs, chief of medical research at the venereal disease research laboratory (cid:862)you (cid:271)ette(cid:396) (cid:272)all if (cid:395)uits (cid:396)ight (cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it is (cid:374)ot getti(cid:374)g a(cid:374)(cid:455) (cid:272)lea(cid:396)e(cid:396) as ti(cid:373)e goes o(cid:374). (cid:863) Id(cid:374)e(cid:455) ola(cid:374)sk(cid:455): (cid:862)the (cid:373)e(cid:374) should (cid:271)e follo(cid:449)ed till death do us pa(cid:396)t. (cid:863) Racial issues were mentioned briefly but will not affect the study. Justification for study: these men are receiving better medical care than they would under any other circumstances. Irwin schatz: phs and physicians associated with study need to re-evaluate their moral judgments if the(cid:455) feel that the i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374) gai(cid:374)ed f(cid:396)o(cid:373) this stud(cid:455) is (cid:449)o(cid:396)th the (cid:373)e(cid:374)"s sacrifice: tuskegee"s (cid:374)e(cid:373)esis, pete(cid:396) bu(cid:454)tu(cid:374): (cid:373)edi(cid:272)i(cid:374)e"s (cid:373)ost fa(cid:373)ous (cid:449)histle(cid:271)lo(cid:449)e(cid:396) Libertarian belief in the sanctity of individual freedom.
