STS 3314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Medical Torture, Gonorrhea, United States Public Health Service
15 Dec 2015
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Bioethics was born in scandal and raised in protectionism carol levine. Reminds us that historical case studies of horrific ethical violations birthed the need to protect human subjects and to regularize the use of informed consent. Less often acknowledged is that bioethics has been so nourished by melodrama, a form of theatric understanding that focuses on known stories and familiar characters, that the effort to provide a different form of sustenance has been problematic. Focuses on two studies in american medical research history that received world-wide attention: the united states public health service (phs) study of untreated. Syphilis in the male negro, better known as the tuskegee syphilis. Study (1932-1972): went on for four decades as hundreds of african american men, 439 with late stage syphilis and 185 controls without the disease were watched, but not supposed to be treated: the u. s. phs inoculation sexually transmitted diseases (std)
