SOAN 3070 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 3: Penicillin, Implied Consent, Informed Consent

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 3070
• Professor: Anna Borisenkova

Document Summary

Before the 1960s, few laws regulated the research process. Consequently, no legal redress was available to subjects, even if they had been wronged by a behavioral scientist. Highly questionable practices in research throughout the late 1950s and 1960s repeatedly demonstrated the need for regulation and control of studies involving human subjects. For instance, the u. s. public health service once conducted a study that is regarded by many as the most glaring violation of ethical practices. This project has come to be called the tuskegee syphilis. Study (brandt, 1978; gray, 2002; hagan, 2006; jones, 1993). This project, which spanned more than 40 years, was a longitudinal study whose purpose was to identify a population of syphilitic black men and to observe in these subjects, over a period of time, the consequences of untreated syphilis. The study began in 1932 when no cure for syphilis existed.